Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan with a presidential decree published in Official Gazette on Wednesday.
Erdogan replaced Pekcan with Mehmet Mus, a member of parliament for the ruling Justice and Development Party.
The dismissal came after reports that the trade ministry bought sanitizer supplies from Pekcan’s family-owned company.
Meanwhile, Turkish Family, Labor and Social Services Ministry has been split into two separate ministries with another presidential decree
