Kamil Okyay Sındır
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Kamil Okyay Sındır MP |
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| General Secretary of the Republican People's Party | |
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Assumed office 24 January 2016 |
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| Leader | Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu |
| Preceded by | Gürsel Tekin |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2015 |
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| Constituency | İzmir (II) (June 2015, Nov 2015) |
| Mayor of Bornova | |
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In office 29 March 2009 – 30 March 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Sırrı Aydoğan |
| Succeeded by | Olgun Atila |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 January 1962 İzmir, Turkey |
| Political party | Republican People's Party |
| Alma mater |
Ege University Cranfield University |
| Occupation | Academic |
Kamil Okyay Sındır (born 1 January 1962) is a Turkish politician who has served as the General Secretary of the Republican People's Party (CHP) since 24 January 2016. He has been a Member of Parliament for İzmir's second electoral district since 7 June 2015, having been elected in the June 2015 general election and re-elected in the November 2015 election. Between 2009 and 2014, he served as the Mayor of Bornova, a district in metropolitan İzmir.
Kamil Okyay Sındır was born on 1 January 1962 in İzmir and graduated from Bornova Anatolia High School in 1980. In 1984, he graduated from the Department of Agricultural Machinery at the Ege University Faculty of Agriculture. He obtained a masters degree in 1988 and obtained a Ph.D at the Cranfield University in the United Kingdom in 1993. Sındır became a Docent in 1997 and a Professor in 2004, working at Ege University Faculty of Agriculture until 2009. He was also an Executive Board member for the Ege University Agricultural Research and Application Centre. Married with two children, he speaks fluent English and semi-fluent German and French.
Between 1996 and 2008, Sındır was an executive member and President of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) Agricultural Engineers Chamber İzmir branch. He also served as the Secretary of the TMMOB İzmir Provincial Co-ordination Board and as the spokesperson for the Academic Careers Chamber Platform. He was also a member of and representative of Turkey to the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA). Between 2007 and 2010, he served as the President and founding co-ordinator of the Southeastern Europe Agricultural Engineers Union. He served as a delegate to the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) and also as the President of the CIGR Rural Development and Protection of Cultural Heritage Working Group.
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