Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş (born 1 December 1954) is a Turkish economist and politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 28 August 2015 to 19 July 2017.

He first joined the interim election government formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on 28 August 2015 as a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) politician.

[1] He has been a Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since the 2007 general election and is the eldest son of the MHP's founder Alparslan Türkeş.

[6] Active in trade fairs, Türkeş was also an executive board member of PETKİM AŞ and the Turkish Republic Development Bank.

Erdoğan called a new general election for November 2015 in late August, with Davutoğlu being tasked with the formation of the interim government.

MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli was strongly against any participation in the government, resulting in heavy criticism of Türkeş by party colleagues.

Amid claims that Türkeş could be suspended from the MHP for disobeying the party executive, Davutoğlu appointed him Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey on 28 August 2015.

[9] Before being suspended, the MHP had already removed his name from their list of MPs on their website and struck off his name from a lift floor guide in the party headquarters.

Before being offered a position as a minister, it was revealed that a member of the MHP Leadership Council had attended a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the temporary speaker Deniz Baykal had done so in July 2015.

[12] After accepting his role as a minister, rumours arose that Türkeş had over ₺1,000,000 in debt and had bought his son a luxury jeep worth ₺400,000.