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		</div><p>Turkey&#8217;s prime minister has announced a cabinet reshuffle, replacing or swapping 11 ministers in the 26-member council, including the officials for justice and defence.</p>
<p>The announcement came months after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regained the leadership of Turkey&#8217;s ruling party following a narrow win in a referendum ushering in a series of constitutional changes.</p>
<p>President Erdogan had complained of a &#8220;fatigue&#8221; within the ruling party, speaking of a need for rejuvenation.</p>
<p>Binali Yildirim named Abdulhamit Gul as the new justice minister and former deputy prime minister Nurettin Canikli as the defence minister.</p>
<p>They replace former minister for justice Bekir Bozdag and for defence Fikri Isik, who were both appointed deputy prime ministers.</p>
<p>Mr Bozdag had largely overseen a major government crackdown following last year&#8217;s failed military coup that Turkey has blamed on US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.</p>
<p>More than 50,000 people suspected of links to the coup or to Mr Gulen have been arrested.</p>
<p>The key ministries for the economy, finance, foreign affairs, the interior and European Union affairs remained unchanged.</p>
<p>Mr Yildirim appointed Julide Sarieroglu as the minister for labour and social security, raising the number of women in the Council of Ministers to two.</p>
<p>Mr Yildirim made the announcement following a previously unannounced meeting with President Erdogan.</p>
<p>The referendum approved a series of constitutional changes abolishing the office of the prime minister and concentrating much of the executive powers in the hands of the president.</p>
<p>While most of the changes will come into effect after the next general elections in 2019, one amendment came into effect immediately &#8211; scrapping laws that require the head of the state to sever ties with political parties.</p>
<p>President Erdogan was re-elected chairman of the ruling party in an extraordinary congress on May 21.</p>
<p>The cabinet reshuffle is seen as a major step toward his cementing his authority and putting his mark on the government ahead of the 2019 elections.</p>
<p>President Erdogan co-founded the Justice and Development Party in 2001 and led it for more than a decade until he was elected president in 2014.</p>
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