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 Binali Yıldırım
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	(1976-06-15) 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, 65th
Religion	Islam

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

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.^[1] In September 2016, Deutsche Welle filed a law suit against Turkish Sports Ministry over the seized interview.^[2]

Early life

Akif Çağatay Kılıç was born on 15 June 1976 to Sinan Kılıç and Behire Yıldız in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.^[3]^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

He studied Political Science at University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.^[7] He attended further studies in Economy of Europe.^[3]^[4]

Çağatay Kılıç is married to Eda Kılıç, and they have two daughters, Ela and Ece.^[3]^[4]^[6]

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.^[3]^[4]

Later, Çağatay Kılıç served as advisor and assistant principal clerk of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.^[3]^[4]

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.^[5] He was appointed a member of the Turkish group at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.^[3]^[4]^[6]

On 26 December 2013, Çağatay Kılıç assumed office as the Minister of Youth and Sports,^[5] 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.^[3]^[6]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

At the age of 37, he became the youngest member of the current cabinet.^[5]^[6]

References

↑ "After interview seizure: 'We are not the press officers of politicians'". Deutsche Welle. September 9, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
↑ Rick Noack (September 26, 2016). "Germany's state-funded broadcaster sues Turkey over confiscated interview". Washington Post. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "İşte yeni bakanların özgeçmişi". Radikal (in Turkish). 26 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "Akif Çağatay Kılıç" (in Turkish). TBMM. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
1 2 3 4 "En genç bakan Akif Çağatay Kılıç oldu". En Son Haber (in Turkish). 26 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
1 2 3 4 5 "Suat Kılıç görevi Çağatay Kılıç'a devretti". Zaman (in Turkish). 26 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
↑ "Akif Çağatay Kılıç kimdir?".Vatan, 26 December 2013
↑ "Üç bakan istifa etti". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 25 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
↑ Yılmazi Turan & Esra Kaya (26 December 2013). "Kabinede 10 değişiklik". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 28 December 2013.
↑ "PM Erdoğan announces new Cabinet with 10 changes amid graft probe". Hürriyet Daily News. 2013-12-25. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
↑ "PM Erdoğan announces 10 new names in major Cabinet reshuffle". Today's Zaman. 2013-12-25. Retrieved 2014-01-30.

Political offices
Preceded by Suat Kılıç	Minister of Youth and Sports 26 December 2013 – present	Incumbent

Yıldırım Cabinet (2016 – present)

Prime Minister	Binali Yıldırım

Deputy Prime Ministers	Nurettin Canikli Numan Kurtulmuş Mehmet Şimşek Veysi Kaynak Tuğrul Türkeş

Ministers	Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Foreign Affairs) Ahmet Arslan (Transport and Communication) Lütfi Elvan (Development) Ömer Çelik (EU Affairs) Mehmet Özhaseki (Environment and Urban Planning) Nabi Avcı (Culture and Tourism) Süleyman Soylu → Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (Labour and Social Security) Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya (Family and Social Policy) Bülent Tüfenkci (Customs and Trade) Efkan Ala → Süleyman Soylu (Interior) Fikri Işık (National Defence) Naci Ağbal (Finance) Faruk Çelik (Food, Agriculture and Livestock) Nihat Zeybekci (Economy) Faruk Özlü (Science, Industry and Technology) İsmet Yılmaz (National Education) Recep Akdağ (Health) Bekir Bozdağ (Justice) Akif Çağatay Kılıç (Youth and Sports) Berat Albayrak (Energy and Natural Resources) Veysel Eroğlu (Forestry and Water Affairs)

Italic: not in office

Third Davutoğlu Cabinet (2015–2016)

Prime Minister	Ahmet Davutoğlu

Deputy Prime Ministers	Yalçın Akdoğan Numan Kurtulmuş Mehmet Şimşek Lütfi Elvan Tuğrul Türkeş

Ministers	Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Foreign Affairs) Binali Yıldırım (Transport and Communication) Cevdet Yılmaz (Development) Volkan Bozkır (EU Affairs) Fatma Güldemet Sarı (Environment and Urban Planning) Mahir Ünal (Culture and Tourism) Süleyman Soylu (Labour and Social Security) Sema Ramazanoğlu (Family and Social Policy) Bülent Tüfenkci (Customs and Trade) Efkan Ala (Interior) İsmet Yılmaz (National Defence) Naci Ağbal (Finance) Faruk Çelik (Food, Agriculture and Livestock) Mustafa Elitaş (Economy) Fikri Işık (Science, Industry and Technology) Nabi Avcı (National Education) Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (Health) Bekir Bozdağ (Justice) Akif Çağatay Kılıç (Youth and Sports) Berat Albayrak (Energy and Natural Resources) Veysel Eroğlu (Forestry and Water Affairs)

Italic: not in office

Interim election cabinet of Turkey (August – November 2015)

Prime Minister	Ahmet Davutoğlu

Deputy Prime Ministers	Yalçın Akdoğan Numan Kurtulmuş Cevdet Yılmaz Tuğrul Türkeş

Ministers	Feridun Sinirlioğlu (Foreign Affairs) Feridun Bilgin (Transport and Communication) Müslüm Doğan → Cüneyd Düzyol (Development) Ali Haydar Konca → Beril Dedeoğlu (EU Affairs) İdris Güllüce (Environment and Urban Planning) Yalçın Topçu (Culture and Tourism) Ahmet Erdem (Labour and Social Security) Ayşen Gürcan (Family and Social Policy) Cenap Aşçı (Customs and Trade) Selami Altınok (Interior) Vecdi Gönül (National Defence) Mehmet Şimşek (Finance) Kutbettin Arzu (Food, Agriculture and Livestock) Nihat Zeybekci (Economy) Fikri Işık (Science, Industry and Technology) Nabi Avcı (National Education) Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (Health) Kenan İpek (Justice) Akif Çağatay Kılıç (Youth and Sports) Ali Rıza Alaboyun (Energy and Natural Resources) Veysel Eroğlu (Forestry and Water Affairs)

Italic: not in office

First Davutoğlu Cabinet (2014 – 2015)

Prime Minister	Ahmet Davutoğlu

Deputy Prime Ministers	Bülent Arınç Numan Kurtulmuş Ali Babacan Yalçın Akdoğan

Ministers	Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Foreign Affairs) Lütfi Elvan → Feridun Bilgin (Transport and Communication) Cevdet Yılmaz (Development) Volkan Bozkır (European Union) İdris Güllüce (Environment and Urban Planning) Ömer Çelik (Culture and Tourism) Faruk Çelik (Labour and Social Security) Ayşenur İslam (Family and Social Policy) Nurettin Canikli (Customs and Commerce) Efkan Ala → Sebahattin Öztürk (Interior) İsmet Yılmaz → Vecdi Gönül (National Defence) Mehmet Şimşek (Finance) Mehmet Mehdi Eker (Food, Agriculture and Animal husbandry) Nihat Zeybekci (Economy) Fikri Işık (Science, Industry and Technology) Nabi Avcı (National Education) Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (Health) Bekir Bozdağ → Kenan İpek (Justice) Akif Çağatay Kılıç (Youth and Sports) Taner Yıldız (Energy and Natural Resources) Veysel Eroğlu (Forestry and Water Affairs)

Italic: not in office

Erdoğan Cabinet III (2011–2014)

Prime Minister

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Deputy Prime Ministers

current	Bülent Arınç Ali Babacan Beşir Atalay Emrullah İşler

former	Bekir Bozdağ (now Justice minister)

Ministers

current	Ahmet Davutoğlu (Foreign Affairs) Lütfi Elvan (Transport and Communication) Cevdet Yılmaz (Development) Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (European Union) İdris Güllüce (Environment and Urban Planning) Ömer Çelik (Culture and Tourism) Faruk Çelik (Labour and Social Security) Ayşenur İslam (Family and Social Policy) Hayati Yazıcı (Customs and Commerce) Efkan Ala (Interior) İsmet Yılmaz (National Defence) Mehmet Şimşek (Finance) Mehmet Mehdi Eker (Food, Agriculture and Animal husbandry) Nihat Zeybekci (Economy) Fikri Işık (Science, Industry and Technology) Nabi Avcı (National Education) Mehmet Müezzinoğlu (Health) Bekir Bozdağ (Justice) Akif Çağatay Kılıç (Youth and Sports) Taner Yıldız (Energy and Natural Resources) Veysel Eroğlu (Forestry and Water Affairs)

former	Binali Yıldırım (Transport and Communication) Egemen Bağış (European Union) Erdoğan Bayraktar (Environment and Urban Planning) Ertuğrul Günay (Culture and Tourism) Fatma Şahin (Family and Social Policy) İdris Naim Şahin (Interior) Muammer Güler (Interior) Zafer Çağlayan (Economy) Nihat Ergün (Science, Industry and Technology) Ömer Dinçer (National Education) Recep Akdağ (Health) Sadullah Ergin (Justice) Suat Kılıç (Youth and Sports)

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