Akif Çağatay Kılıç was born on 15 June 1976 to Sinan Kılıç and Behire Yıldız in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.[1][2]
His grandfather İlyas Kılıç was a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who served five consecutive times as MP between 1961 and 1980.[3] His father Sinan Kılıç served as a private physician of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his office time as the Mayor of Istanbul in the 1990s.[4]
Çağatay Kılıç is married to Eda Kılıç, and they have two daughters, Ela and Ece.[1][2][4]
Career
Profession
He worked in the purchasing department of Sabancı Holding's Universal Trading Company in the UK. After returning to Turkey, he was appointed advisor in the headquarters of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2003.[1][2]
Later, Çağatay Kılıç served as advisor and assistant principal clerk of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[1][2]
At the age of 37, he became the youngest member of the cabinet.[3][4]
In September 2016, Kılıç was involved in controversy when after an interview with Michel Friedman on DW-TV's "Conflict Zone", the Turkish government seized the recording.[10] In September 2016, Deutsche Welle filed a lawsuit against Turkish Sports Ministry over the seized interview.[11]
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