Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose Justice and Development Party (AK Party) won the June 12 elections with 50 percent of the vote, on Wednesday, July 6, submitted his new Cabinet to President Abdullah Gül.

Erdoğan's government introduced changes to the current Cabinet structure last month. The government abolished eight state ministries, introduced six new ministries, merged two ministries and transformed two others. As part of the new structure, there are 26 members of the Cabinet, including the prime minister. There are four deputy prime ministers and 21 ministers. The Cabinet announced by Erdoğan includes Bekir Bozdağ, Beşir Atalay, Bülent Arınç and Ali Babacan as the deputy prime ministers.

The ministers who will serve as the heads of the newly introduced ministries are Minister of Family and Social Policy Fatma Şahin, Minister of European Union Affairs Egemen Bağış, Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan, Minister of Youth and Sports Suat Kılıç, Minister of Customs and Trade Hayati Yazıcı and Minister of Development Cevdet Yılmaz.

Six names in the Cabinet are new and the posts of three former ministers were changed while 16 ministers preserved their positions. The new ministers are Fatma Şahin, Erdoğan Bayraktar, İsmet Yılmaz, İdris Naim Şahin, Suat Kılıç and Bekir Bozdağ, Today's Zaman reported.