Last month, parliamentary and presidential elections were held in Turkey. As a result, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won the election and took his mandate on June 4, 2023, and took the seat again as the 12th President. Soon after, the new cabinet list was shared. We also shared the ministers who will guide Turkey’s technology sector for the next 5 years. Today, the deputy ministers have been announced.
Who will play a role in Turkey’s technology sector?
Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır:
Ahmet Yozgatlıgil, Çetin Ali Dönmez, Oruç Baba İnan and Zekeriya Çoştu were appointed as deputy ministers of the Ministry of Industry and Technology.
Assistants of Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu:
Durmuş Ünüvar, Enver İskurt, Osman Boyraz and Ömer Fatih Sayan were appointed as deputy ministers of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.
Assistants of the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar:
Abdullah Tancan, Ahmet Berat Çonkar, Nevzat Şatıroğlu and Zafer Demircan were appointed as deputy ministers of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources.
Who is Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Minister of Industry and Technology?
Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır served as Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology for the past 5 years. Of course, we heard his name often before. After the establishment (one of the founders) of the T3 Foundation in 2016, he served as the chairman of the board of directors until 2018.
Minister Kacır also played a major role in the emergence of the Teknofest event. He is also among the founders of Teknofest, which is focused on aviation, space and technology, which was first held in 2018. It should be noted that he also served as the Chairman of the Executive Board of TEKNOFEST in this process.
After 2018, he assumed the position of Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology. In the last 5 years, he was responsible for the National Technology Move and strategic transformation policies. In this context, he coordinated the works of the General Directorate of Strategic Research and Efficiency, the General Directorate of National Technology, the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, TUBITAK, the Turkish Space Agency and the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
In addition to all these, it has managed to make its name known in the software industry, which has become increasingly popular in recent years. In addition to many investment-incentive programs, he pioneered the Turkish Open Source Platform and the establishment of 42 Software Schools within the scope of this platform. Additionally, he played a major role in bringing Togg to life.
If we talk briefly about Mehmet Fatih Kacır’s education life; He graduated from Istanbul Erkek High School. He placed 12th in Turkey in the university entrance exam in 2003 and entered the Industrial Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University. He completed his higher education in 2008. He served as student representative during his university years. He pioneered interdisciplinary research and project management training.
Who is Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure?
Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, who has been the General Manager of Highways since 23 July 2018, has been appointed as the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure today. Having graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering in 1988, Uraloğlu will play a major role in Turkey’s fiber infrastructure and 5G transition process in the coming years.
Who is Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources?
Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He completed his master’s degree in economics from Bilkent University Faculty of Law and in international relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
He completed his doctorate in the field of energy economics and policy at the Middle East Technical University, department of earth system sciences. More recently, he served as a Board Member at the Energy Market Regulatory Authority between 2010 and 2016, and then as Deputy Undersecretary of ETKB and General Manager of Foreign Relations and European Union between 2016-2018.
Alparslan Bayraktar, who works in the field of energy management and regulations in the private sector, has made a name for himself as the President of the Energy Regulators Confederation (ICER) and the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA). In addition, he currently continues his duty as Türkiye President of the World Energy Council.