Career
Sylikiotis was the Cypriot Minister of the Interior between September 2006 and July 2007, and again, between March 2008 and March 2012. Between March 2012 and February 2013, he was Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism. Sylikiotis was born in Limassol in 1959.
He studied mechanical engineering at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.