Akif Çağatay Kılıç

Akif Çağatay Kılıç MP
Akif Çağatay Kılıç, Minister of Youth and Sports (May 2014)
Minister of Youth and Sports
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 December 2013
Prime Minister	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu
Preceded by	Suat Kılıç
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 June 2011
Constituency	Samsun (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015)
Personal details
Born	15 June 1976 Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Nationality	Turkish
Political party	Justice and Development Party (AKP)
Spouse(s)	Eda Kılıç
Children	Daughters: Ela and Ece
Alma mater	University of Hertfordshire
Profession	Politician
Cabinet	61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th
Religion	Islam

Akif Çağatay Kılıç (born 15 June 1976) is a Turkish educator, politician, a MP for Samsun Province of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the current Minister of Youth and Sports of Turkey.

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 in 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. Returned 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 current cabinet.^[3][4]

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. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
5. "Akif Çağatay Kılıç kimdir?".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. 2013-12-25. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
9. "PM Erdoğan announces 10 new names in major Cabinet reshuffle". Today's Zaman. 2013-12-25. Retrieved 2014-01-30.