Career
He concurrently served as the Chief Negotiator for Turkish Accession to the European Union during the same time. Volkan Bozkır was born in Ankara, Turkey. He graduated from Faculty of Law at the Ankara University.
He speaks fluent English and French.
Bozkır caused controversy in 2014 when he reported during a press conference that Turkey would no longer participate in the Eurovision Song Contest after Conchita Wurst"s victory in Eurovision Song Contest 2014 and made statements criticized as homophobic. On September 5 the General Manager of TRT, İbrahim Şahin, officially announced that Turkey would not return to 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.