Background
İlhan Kesici was born on 22 November 1948 in Zara, Sivas Province and graduated from Middle East Technical University Faculty of Industrial Engineering.
İlhan Kesici was born on 22 November 1948 in Zara, Sivas Province and graduated from Middle East Technical University Faculty of Industrial Engineering.
Bachelor of Science, Middle East Technology University, Ankara, Turkey, 1971. Master of Science, Middle East Technology University, Ankara, Turkey, 1974. Diplomate, University Bradford, United Kingdom, 1974.
Certified, Royal Institute Public Administration, London, 1982.
In August 2015, he was offered a ministerial position in the interim election government formed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, which he turned down. He obtained a masters degree from the same university. Employment
Kesici began work at the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) Research, Planning and Coordination Department, as a chief project engineer in 1972.
He became the deputy manager of the Research, Planning and Coordination Department in 1977.
In 1979, he joined the state planning organisation in the Prime Ministry of Turkey and worked as an expert in the Transport and Communications Sector. He became the manager of the state planning organisation in 1981 and became general director in 1984.
In 1985, he became the Deputy Permanent Representative of Turkey to the European Community in Brussels. In 1987, he returned to the state planning organisation to become an advisor to the organisation undersecretary, later becoming the undersecretary in 1991.
2007–present
He resigned from the CHP on 28 September 2010 and subsequently stood down at the end of the Parliament in 2011.
He rejoined the CHP before the June 2015 general election, in which he was again elected as an Member of Parliament for İstanbul"s first electoral district. Kesici was one of the five CHP politicians who were offered ministerial positions by Justice and Development Party leader Ahmet Davutoğlu in August 2015. Davutoğlu had been tasked by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to form an interim election government after coalition negotiations proved unsuccessful and resulted in Erdoğan calling an early election.
Since the CHP had 131 MPs during the formation of the interim government, the party was entitled to 5 ministries in the cabinet, though Kılıçdaroğlu announced that the CHP would not take part and give up their five ministries to independent politicians.
Kesici subsequently declined Davutoğlu"s offer, as did the four other CHP MPs that had been offered ministerial positions.
1994-1999
Kesici became the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party)) candidate for the Mayor of İstanbul in the 1994 local elections, losing narrowly to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the Welfare Party (RP).
He previously served as a CHP Member of Parliament for the same district from 2007 to 2011 and as an Member of Parliament for Bursa from 1995 to 1999 while he was a member of the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party)). He was appointed as a member of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in the same year. He became a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Bursa in the 1995 general election.
As an Member of Parliament, he was a member of the Foreign Relations Commission, a member of the Turkish delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Turkey-European Union Joint Parliamentary Committee.
On 22 May 2007, Kesici became a member of the Republican People"s Party (CHP) and was elected as an Member of Parliament for İstanbul"s first electoral district in the 2007 general election. He was again a member of the Foreign Relations Commission and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly.
He was again appointed as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly.
Married Binhan Demirel Kesici, February 10, 1994. 1 child Aslihan.