Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
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Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu MP |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 24 November 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ahmet Davutoğlu Binali Yıldırım |
| Preceded by | Feridun Sinirlioğlu |
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In office 29 August 2014 – 28 August 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Ahmet Davutoğlu |
| Preceded by | Ahmet Davutoğlu |
| Succeeded by | Feridun Sinirlioğlu |
| Minister of European Union Affairs | |
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In office 25 December 2013 – 29 August 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Preceded by | Egemen Bağış |
| Succeeded by | Volkan Bozkır |
| Chief Negotiator for Turkish Accession to the European Union | |
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In office 25 December 2013 – 29 August 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Preceded by | Egemen Bağış |
| Succeeded by | Volkan Bozkır |
| President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe | |
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In office 25 January 2010 – 25 January 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Lluís Maria de Puig |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Claude Mignon |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 1 November 2015 |
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| Constituency | Antalya (Nov 2015) |
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In office 3 November 2002 – 7 June 2015 |
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| Constituency | Antalya (2002, 2007, 2011) |
| Personal details | |
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5 February 1968 Alanya, Turkey |
| Political party | Justice and Development Party |
| Alma mater |
Ankara University Long Island University Bilkent University |
| Religion | Islam |
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Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (born 5 February 1968) is a Turkish politician who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey since 24 November 2015; previously he was Minister of Foreign Affairs from August 2014 to August 2015. He is also a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, where he represents Antalya Province. First elected to Parliament in the 2002 general election, he is a founding member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2010 to 2012.
Born at Alanya, Çavuşoğlu graduated from Ankara University in 1988 where he studied international relations. He then received a masters in economics from Long Island University in New York, and studied for his doctorate at Bilkent University and was a research fellow at London School of Economics, where he was for a time president of the Turkish Society. He is married with one child.
While serving in parliament, he has chaired the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population. In November 2009, he met the foreign minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, in the context of a report that the Assembly is preparing on the Soviet famine of 1932–1933.
Çavuşoğlu joined the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2003 and soon after was named the head of the Turkish delegation and a vice-president of the Assembly. During the January 2010 session of the Assembly, he was nominated and elected on 25 January 2010 to replace outgoing President Lluís Maria De Puig of Spain. In the October reshuffle, this was the reason given for why he did not receive extra responsibilities in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government. His candidacy for this post was supported by all of Turkey's main parties. He became president just months before Turkey took up the chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (November 2010) and at the same time that there was a Turkish president of the Congress of the Council of Europe. In 2012, he was succeeded by France's Jean-Claude Mignon.
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