Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu 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.
Education
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.
Career
He was the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the from 2010 to 2012. 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 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 (November 2010) and at the same time that there was a Turkish president of the Congress of the In 2012, he was succeeded by France"s Jean-Claude Mignon.
Çavuşoğlu was criticized by Hurriyet, because of his intervention in the municipality election in Antalya that took place on 30 March 2014.
When the opposing party candidate Mustafa Akaydin was ahead of the ruling party candidate, he visited the courthouse with his supporters and interrupted the counting process. After his interruption, counting of votes was stopped. lieutenant was claimed that not already counted votes are from suburbs where the opposing party has more supporters.
Membership
Parliamentary Assembly of the
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).