Akif Çağatay Kılıç

Akif Çağatay Kılıç (born 15 June 1976) is a Turkish educator, politician, a former MP for Samsun Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the former Minister of Youth and Sports of Turkey. He is the President's Foreign Policy and Security Chief Advisor.

Akif Çağatay Kılıç
MP
Akif Çağatay Kılıç, Minister of Youth and Sports (May 2014)
Minister of Youth and Sports
In office
25 December 2013 – 19 July 2017
Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Binali Yıldırım
Preceded bySuat Kılıç
Succeeded byOsman Aşkın Bak
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Assumed office
8 July 2018
Constituencyİstanbul (III) (2018)
In office
12 June 2011 – 7 July 2018
ConstituencySamsun (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015)
Personal details
Born (1976-06-15) 15 June 1976
Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
NationalityTurkish
Political partyJustice and Development Party (AKP)
SpouseEda Kılıç
ChildrenDaughters: Ela and Ece
Alma materUniversity of Hertfordshire
ProfessionPolitician
Cabinet61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th

Early life

Akif Çağatay Kılıç was born on 15 June 1976 to Sinan Kılıç and Behire Yıldız in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.[1][2]

His grandfather İlyas Kılıç was a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who served five consecutive times as MP between 1961 and 1980.[3] His father Sinan Kılıç served as a private physician of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his office time as the Mayor of Istanbul in the 1990s.[4]

He studied Political Science at University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.[5] He attended further studies related to Economy of Europe.[1][2]

Çağatay Kılıç is married to Eda Kılıç, and they have two daughters, Ela and Ece.[1][2][4]

Career

Profession

He worked in the purchasing department of Sabancı Holding's Universal Trading Company in the UK. After returning to Turkey, he was appointed advisor in the headquarters of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2003.[1][2]

Later, Çağatay Kılıç served as advisor and assistant principal clerk of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[1][2]

Politics

Kılıç entered active politics running for a seat in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the 2011 general election, and was elected as an MP of Samsun Province from the AKP.[3] He was appointed a member of the Turkish group at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[1][2][4]

On 26 December 2013, Çağatay Kılıç assumed office as the Minister of Youth and Sports,[3] succeeding Suat Kılıç during Erdoğan's cabinet reshuffle with ten new names that was announced the day before, on 25 December, following the 2013 corruption scandal in Turkey.[1][4][6][7][8][9]

At the age of 37, he became the youngest member of the cabinet.[3][4]

In September 2016, Kılıç was involved in controversy when after an interview with Michel Friedman on DW-TV's "Conflict Zone", the Turkish government seized the recording.[10] In September 2016, Deutsche Welle filed a lawsuit against Turkish Sports Ministry over the seized interview.[11]

References
  1. "İşte yeni bakanların özgeçmişi". Radikal (in Turkish). 26 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  2. "Akif Çağatay Kılıç" (in Turkish). TBMM. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  3. "En genç bakan Akif Çağatay Kılıç oldu". En Son Haber (in Turkish). 26 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  4. "Suat Kılıç görevi Çağatay Kılıç'a devretti". Zaman (in Turkish). 26 December 2013. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  5. "Akif Çağatay Kılıç kimdir?" Archived 1 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine.Vatan, 26 December 2013
  6. "Üç bakan istifa etti". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 25 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  7. Yılmazi Turan & Esra Kaya (26 December 2013). "Kabinede 10 değişiklik". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  8. "PM Erdoğan announces new Cabinet with 10 changes amid graft probe". Hürriyet Daily News. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  9. "PM Erdoğan announces 10 new names in major Cabinet reshuffle". Today's Zaman. 25 December 2013. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  10. "After interview seizure: 'We are not the press officers of politicians'". Deutsche Welle. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  11. Rick Noack (26 September 2016). "Germany's state-funded broadcaster sues Turkey over confiscated interview". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
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