Akif Çağatay Kılıç

Akif Çağatay Kılıç
Akif Çağatay Kılıç, Minister of Youth and Sports (May 2014)
Minister of Youth and Sports
In office 25 December 2013 – 19 July 2017
Prime Minister	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu Binali Yıldırım
Preceded by	Suat Kılıç
Succeeded by	Osman Aşkın Bak
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office 8 July 2018 – 7 April 2023
Constituency	İstanbul (III) (2018)
In office 12 June 2011 – 7 July 2018
Constituency	Samsun (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015)
Personal details
Born	(1976-06-15) 15 June 1976 (age 47) Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Nationality	Turkish
Political party	Justice and Development Party (AKP)
Spouse	Eda Kılıç
Children	Daughters: Ela and Ece
Alma mater	University of Hertfordshire
Profession	Politician
Cabinet	61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th

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.

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]

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Minister of Science, Industry and Technology

• Faruk Özlü (2016–2018)

Minister of Transport and Communication

• Ahmet Arslan (2016–2018)

Minister of Youth and Sports

• Akif Çağatay Kılıç (2016–2017)
• Osman Aşkın Bak (2016–2018)