Akif Çağatay Kılıç
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Akif Çağatay Kılıç MP |
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Akif Çağatay Kılıç, Minister of Youth and Sports (May 2014)
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| Minister of Youth and Sports | |
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Assumed office 25 December 2013 |
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| Prime Minister |
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu Binali Yıldırım |
| Preceded by | Suat Kılıç |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 12 June 2011 |
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| Constituency | Samsun (2011, June 2015, Nov 2015) |
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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. In September 2016, Deutsche Welle filed a law suit against Turkish Sports Ministry over the seized interview.
Akif Çağatay Kılıç was born on 15 June 1976 to Sinan Kılıç and Behire Yıldız in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.
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. 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.
He studied Political Science at University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. He attended further studies in Economy of Europe.
Çağatay Kılıç is married to Eda Kılıç, and they have two daughters, Ela and Ece.
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.
Later, Çağatay Kılıç served as advisor and assistant principal clerk of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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