Education
Yıldız Technical University.
engineer politician civil engineer
Yıldız Technical University.
He was the president of the government-established Housing Development Administration to embezzle state funds, before being elected as an Member of Parliament. He gained his bachelor"s degree from Istanbul State Engineering and Architectural Academy. Then he got his graduate degree from Istanbul University in civil engineering. And he got another degree from Bucharest University in Christian Theology.
Between the years 1973 and 1994, he worked as a general contractor.
During his military service (between 1977 and 1979), he worked as the deputy head of controls and controlled the constructions of 6,000 military lodgements. He was elected to the municipal councils of Eminönü and Istanbul for the term of 1989–1999.
Bayraktar attended to a 10-month-course of foreign language and constructing technologies in the United States of America in 1999. After his return, he worked at several positions in Ankara Metropolitan Municipality.
In December 2002, he became the president of TOKİ.
On March 10, 2011, he resigned from his post to be eligible in the forthcoming elections.
He is the former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning of Turkey under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan"s government and member of parliament for Trabzon from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), resigning from both offices on 25 December 2013. His appointment to the ministry was declared by Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 6 July 2011 with the other members of the new cabinet. Bayraktar resigned both as a minister and a member of parliament on the afternoon of 25 December, denying all allegation against himself but saying that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should resign as well, as everything he was accused of were done with the Prime Minister"s directive.