Adil Karaismailoğlu

Adil Karaismailoğlu (born 1969) is a Turkish mechanical engineer, civil servant and current Minister of Transport and Infrastructure.

Adil Karaismailoğlu
Adil Karaismailpğlu (March 2020)
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure
Assumed office
28 March 2020
PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded byMehmet Cahit Turhan
Personal details
Born1969 (age 51–52)
Trabzon, Turkey
Political partyIndependent
Children2
Alma materKaradeniz Technical University
OccupationMechanical engineer, politician

Adil Karaismailoğlu was born in Trabzon, northern Turkey in 1969. After finishing the Trabzon High School,[1] he studied Mechanical engineering at Karadeniz Technical University graduating with the title B.Eng. He later earned his M.Eng. title in Urban Systems and Transportation management from Bahçeşehir University.[1][2]

He started his working life at the Transportation Coordination Department of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) in 1995. From 1998 on, he worked in the municipality's city bus company İETT as an engineer and later in leading positions. In 2002, he was assigned to the Traffic Control Center of the IBB's Traffic Department as assistant manager for Signalling control and Intelligent transportation system. He was appointed Manager of the Transportation Coordination Department on 16 November 2009, and Head of Transportation Department on 23 July 2014. His next positions were Head of Istanbul Real Estate Department at the governmental holding authority TOKI from July 2016, and Assistant secretary general of the Mayor of Istanbul from April 2018.[1][2] He resigned from the post at the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality after the Republican People's Party's mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu took office on 28 June 2019.[3]

On 20 September 2019, he was appointed Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.[3] On 28 March 2020, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan replaced Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan in the Cabinet Erdoğan IV with Karaismailoğlu.[1][2]

References
  1. "Adil Karaismailoğlu kimdir?". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 28 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  2. "Adil Karaismailoğlu kimdir? Yeni Ulaştırma Bakanı'nı nereli?". Sözcü (in Turkish). 28 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  3. "İstifa eden İBB genel sekreter yardımcısı bakan yardımcısı oldu". Sözcü (in Turkish). 20 September 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
Political offices
Preceded by
Mehmet Cahit Turhan		 Minister of Transport and Infrastructure
28 March 2020 – present		 Succeeded by
incumbent


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