Background
Akif Çağatay Kılıç was born on 15 June 1976 to Sinan Kılıç and Behire Yıldız in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.
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Akif Cagatay Kılıc
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He studied Political Science at University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
Career
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 attended further studies in Economy of Europe. Çağatay Kılıç is married to Eda Kılıç, and they have two daughters, Ela and Ece.
Profession
He worked in the purchasing department of Sabancı Holding"s Universal Trading Company in the United Kingdom. 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. 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 Member of Parliament of Samsun Province from the AKP. On 26 December 2013, Çağatay Kılıç assumed office as the Minister of Youth and Sports, 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.
Membership
He was appointed a member of the Turkish group at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly. At the age of 37, he became the youngest member of the current cabinet.
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Justice and Development Party