59 Leadership in Crisis Management: Health Minister Dr. Fahrettin Koca's Crisis Management and Leadership at the Struggle with Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Turkey Osman Kürşat ACAR 1 Mine CAN 2 Elvettin AKMAN 3 Ferruh TUZCUOĞLU 4 Abstract Today, the crisis is perceived as a prevalent concept due to its source's scope and as a danger that attacks the modern world and leaves it vulnerable in different aspects. A problem can turn into a crisis with wrong interventions, evaluations, and directions. On the other hand, crisis management includes the activities implemented to develop measures against the crisis, overcome the crisis with the least damage, and get an opportunity from the crisis phenomenon. Achieving positive or negative results in times of crisis depends on how the process is managed. Therefore, a leader is needed more than ever in times of crisis. Being a crisis management leader has an important place in resolving the crisis before, during, and after the crisis. In this context, the article in Turkey Coronavirus (Covid-19) in the fight against Health Minister Fahrettin Koca of the crisis management and leadership was discussed. In the theoretical part of the study, the framework for crisis management and leadership is drawn. In this study, where the period between January and May 2020 was evaluated, afterward, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca's leadership in crisis management before the first case and after the first case was examined and evaluated. Since the research covers a certain date range, different researches can be done regarding the other epidemic period. Keywords: Crisis, Crisis Management, Leadership, Coronavirus, Fahrettin Koca. 1 Doç. Dr., Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi Bölümü, osmanacar@sdu.edu.tr, Orcid: 0000-0002- 1961-645X. 2 Yüksek Lisans Öğrencisi, Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi ve Liderlik ABD, canmine733@gmail.com, Orcid: 0000-0002-7810-9992. 3 Doç. Dr., Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, elvettinakman@sdu.edu.tr, Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2303-840X. 4 Doç. Dr., Sakarya Üniversitesi, Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, tuzcuoglu@sakarya.edu.tr, Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003- 0319-9396.