Ömer Çelik

Ömer Çelik (2015)

Ömer Çelik (born June 15, 1968 in Adana ) is a Turkish political scientist, journalist, politician and since August 2018 spokesman for the Justice and Recovery Party (AKP). In the Yıldırım cabinet , he was the Turkish EU minister and thus also chief negotiator for Turkey's accession negotiations with the European Union .

Life

Çelik graduated from the State Administration Department of the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration at Gazi University in Ankara . He graduated with a degree in political science from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Ankara University . Ömer Çelik has worked as a columnist in the newspapers Yeniyüzyıl, Star and Sabah . He is political advisor to the chairman of the AKP . Çelik was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the province of Adana in the 22nd legislative term and is also a member of the same province in the 23rd legislative term.

At the beginning of 2013, he was appointed to his cabinet by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . He replaced the then Minister for Culture and Tourism Ertuğrul Günay .

On May 24, 2016, he was presented as the Turkish Minister for Europe . He has been the AKP spokesman since August 2018.

Web links

Commons : Ömer Çelik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Grand National Assembly of Turkey: Biography of Ömer Çelik

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tasarım: Emre Baydur: Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi. Retrieved March 26, 2018 . 
2. ^ Ministry for EU Affairs - Republic of Turkey. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 6, 2015 ; accessed on October 22, 2016 . 
3. ↑ EU Minister Çelik: “The EU is not the only option for Turkey”. (No longer available online.) In: Sabah Deutsch. May 26, 2016, archived from the original on August 25, 2016 ; accessed on October 22, 2016 . 
4. ^ Ministry for EU Affairs. Retrieved October 22, 2016 . 
5. ↑ AKP'nin yeni sözcüsü Ömer Çelik oldu. August 18, 2018, accessed September 23, 2019 (Turkish).