Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu

Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu
Minister of Transport
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 July 2015
Prime Minister	Ömer Kalyoncu
Preceded by	Hasan Taçoy
Personal details
Born	1953 (age 62–63) Nicosia, Cyprus
Political party	National Unity Party
Alma mater	University of Arizona

Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu (born 1953) is a Turkish Cypriot politician. He is a member of the Assembly of the Republic.

He was born in 1953 in Nicosia and studied political science in the University of Arizona, graduating in 1981. In 1983, he started working in the Northern Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense.^[1] Between 1986 and 1991, he worked in the TRNC Representation in London, after which he was appointed as the undersecretary of the Prime Ministry, where he worked until 1994. He was re-appointed to the same post in 1996, afterwards, he also occupied the post of presidency in BRT.^[2]

In the 1998 parliamentary election, he was elected as a member of the parliament from Lefkoşa District in the National Unity Party (UBP). Between 1999 and 2003, he served as the Turkish Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense. He was reelected in 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2013. Between 16 December 2006 and 29 November 2008, he was the president of the UBP.^[2] On 15 March 2010,^[2] he was expelled from the UBP due to his candidacy in the presidential election against the party's leader, Derviş Eroğlu. He received 3.81% of the popular vote in the election. Afterwards, a court ruling deemed his expulsion unlawful.^[3] On 15 July 2011, he established his own party, the Democracy and Trust Party,^[4] which he abolished in 2012 to rejoin the UBP. In 2014, he created controversy by calling Özdil Nami, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, "a child".^[5] In July 2015, he became the Minister of Transport, in the cabinet under Ömer Kalyoncu.^[6] He is Minister of Foreign Affairs since 16 April 2016.

He is married with two children.^[2]

References

1. "Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu (1953 - .... )". kimkimdir.gen.tr. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
2. "Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu". TRNC Republic of the Assembly. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
3. "Ertuğruloğlu'nun UBP davasının sonucunda tüm taraflar memnun". Kıbrıs Postası. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
4. "Ertuğruloğlu'nun Demokrasi ve Güven Partisi bugün resmen kuruldu". Kıbrıs Postası. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
5. "Ertuğruloğlu: "Nami haddini bilmesi gereken bir çocuk!"". Kıbrıs Postası. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
6. "Kıbrıs Türk siyasi tarihinde bir ilk: CTP - UBP Koalisyonu" (in Turkish). Kıbrıs Postası. Retrieved 17 July 2015.