Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was born on the 5th of February 1968
in Alanya, Turkey.
Mr. Çavuşoğlu received his Bachelor's Degree in
International Relations from Ankara University in 1988
and completed his Master’s Degree in Economics from
Long Island University in New York in 1991. He also
completed the Expertise Programme on European Union
in European Research Center at Ankara University in
1993.
He started a PhD Degree in International Relations at
Bilkent University as a special student and carried out
Research Fee at the London School of Economics (LSE)
between 1993 and 1995 with the Jean Monnet
Fellowship.
Mr. Çavuşoğlu is a founding member of the Justice and
Development Party (AK Party) and was elected as
Member of Parliament from Antalya for the 22nd, 23rd
and 24th Parliamentary Terms. He was the Vice
Chairman of the AK Party in charge of Foreign Affairs
from January to December 2013. He has been the
member of the Central Decision Making and
Administrative Committee of the AK Party since
September 2012. He was the Chairman of Turkey-USA
and Turkey-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Friendship
Caucuses.
Between 2003-2014, at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), he worked as Vice
President, Chairman of Turkish Delegation, Chairman of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and
Population, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Migration, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Tourism
Development, Member of Monitoring Committee, Committee on Economic Affairs and Development,
Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. He was also
the 2nd Vice Chairman and Chief Whip of European Democrat Group (EDG).
He was elected as the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) during
2010-2012 and is the first Turkish parliamentarian to hold this office, and was granted the title of Honorary
President of the PACE in 2014.
He was the PACE representative at the Venice Commission from 27 January 2012 to 31 January 2014.
Moreover, he was the Chairman of the Turkish Delegation to the European Security and Defence Assembly
(Assembly of Western European Union) between 2007 and 2010.
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu served as Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator of the Republic of Turkey between
26 December 2013 and 29 August 2014.
On August 29, 2014 he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the 62th Government of the
Republic of Turkey.
He speaks English, German and Japanese. He is married and has one child.