Kemal Unakıtan

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Kemal Unakıtan is Minister of Finance of Turkey and a Member of Parliament for Istanbul of the ruling AKP.

He was formerly a board member of the Family Finance Group.

In his time as minister of finance he has presided over a number of situations primarily the Treasury's need to raise funds in a time when Turkey has a large national debt and is failing to collect taxes to cover it. Unakıtan has therefore had to

• try to sell forestry land to raise funds for the treasury
• raise fuel duties and other indirect taxation plus
  • extra duties and payments such as his "permanent earthquake fund"