İbrahim Kalın

İbrahim Kalın


1st Turkish Presidential Press Secretary
Incumbent
Assumed office December 11, 2014
President	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Personal details
Born	İbrahim Kalın 1971 Istanbul, Turkey
Alma mater	Istanbul University

İbrahim Kalın (born 1971) is assistant to the Turkish President and the current Press Secretary in the Turkish Presidential Complex. He is also a senior fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University.

Kalin received his B. A. from the University of Istanbul and Ph. D. from George Washington University. From 2002 to 2005 he was a faculty member at the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. From 2005 to 2009 he was the director of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research based in Ankara, Turkey.

On December 11, 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that İbrahim Kalın would be the first official Turkish Presidential Press Secretary.