Erdoğan Bayraktar

Who is Erdoğan Bayraktar?

Erdoğan Bayraktar is the current Minister of Urban Planning and Development of Turkey and a MP for Trabzon of the ruling Justice and Development Party.

He is married with five children. He was the president of TOKİ before being elected as MP. His appointment to the ministry was declared by Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 6, 2011 with the other members of the new cabinet.

He gained his Bachelor's degree from Istanbul State Engineering and Architectural Academy. Then he got his graduate degree from Istanbul University Institute of Sciences on civil engineering. And he got another degree from Bucharest University on constructing contracts.

Between the years 1973 and 1994, he worked as a general contractor. During his military service, 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. He was appointed to the presidency of KİPTAŞ which is a municipal company of construction. Bayraktar attended to a 10-month-course of foreign language and constructing technologies in the USA 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.