The following is a list of governors of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
From its foundation until January 26, 1970, the heads of the Central Bank were in the status of General Director. Thereafter the title was changed to Governor.
# | Name | Took office | Left office |
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General Directors | |||
1 | Selahattin Çam | June 9, 1931 | March 21, 1938 |
2 | Kemal Zaim Sunel | March 21, 1938 | March 9, 1949 |
3 | Mustafa Sadi Bekter | March 31, 1949 | October 4, 1950 |
4 | Osman Nuri Göver | April 13, 1951 | May 28, 1953 |
5 | Mustafa Nail Gidel | July 20, 1953 | June 16, 1960 |
6 | Memduh Aytür | July 21, 1960 | November 7, 1960 |
7 | İbrahim Münir Mostar | November 23, 1960 | August 28, 1962 |
8 | Ziyaettin Kayla | June 28, 1963 | January 13, 1966 |
9 | Naim Talu | July 14, 1967 | December 11, 1971 |
Governors | |||
10 | Memduh Güpgüpoğlu | July 25, 1972 | January 9, 1975 |
11 | Cafer Tayyar Sadıklar | June 26, 1976 | September 18, 1978 |
12 | İsmail Hakkı Aydınoğlu | October 21, 1978 | January 10, 1981 |
13 | Osman Şıklar | January 12, 1981 | January 4, 1984 |
14 | Yavuz Canevi | January 15, 1984 | November 11, 1986 |
15 | Rüşdü Saracoğlu | July 23, 1987 | August 2, 1993 |
16 | Nihat Bülent Gültekin | September 9, 1993 | January 31, 1994 |
17 | Şakir Yaman Törüner | February 14, 1994 | November 1, 1995 |
18 | Süleyman Gazi Erçel | April 10, 1996 | March 1, 2001 |
19 | Süreyya Serdengeçti | March 14, 2001 | March 14, 2006 |
20 | Durmuş Yılmaz | April 18, 2006 | April 13, 2011 |
21 | Erdem Başçı | April 14, 2011 | April 19, 2016 |
22 | Murat Çetinkaya | April 19, 2016 | July 5, 2019 |
23 | Murat Uysal | July 6, 2019 | November 7, 2020 |
24 | Naci Ağbal | November 7, 2020 | March 20, 2021 |
25 | Şahap Kavcıoğlu | March 20, 2021 | June 8, 2023 |
26 | Hafize Gaye Erkan | June 8, 2023 | February 2, 2024 |
27 | Fatih Karahan | February 2, 2024 |
References
[edit]- Newspaper Tercüman (in Turkish)
- Newspaper Dünya (in Turkish)