Özkan Yorgancıoğlu

Özkan Yorgancıoğlu
Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus
In office 2 September 2013 – 16 July 2015
President	Derviş Eroğlu Mustafa Akıncı
Preceded by	Sibel Siber
Succeeded by	Ömer Kalyoncu
Personal details
Born	1 August 1954 Lempa, British Cyprus
Political party	Republican Turkish Party
Alma mater	Istanbul University

Özkan Yorgancıoğlu (born 1 August 1954) is a Turkish Cypriot politician who has been Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) between 2 September 2013 and 16 July 2015. He is also the leader of the Republican Turkish Party.

Early life and education

Yorgancıoğlu was born in 1954 in Lempa, a village in Paphos, the westernmost district of Cyprus, which was, at the time, a British crown colony. He studied at Istanbul University's Department of Economics and Public Finance, receiving his degree in Political Science in 1980.^[1]

Political career

On 28 April 2005, Yorgancıoğlu was appointed Minister of Youth and Sports^[2] in the cabinet of TRNC Prime Minister (PM) Ferdi Sabit Soyer, who served from April 2005 to May 2009. In 2011, he replaced Soyer as Chairman of the Republican Turkish Party.^[3] After his party won the July 2013 legislative election, he became PM, replacing interim PM Sibel Siber on 2 September.^[4]

References

1. Özkan Yorgancıoğlu biographical details {in Turkish}
2. Europa World Year, Book 1, (Taylor & Francis Group, 2004), 1393.
3. de Waele, Jean-Michel; Escalona, Fabien; Vieira, Mathieu, eds. (2013). The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 70.
4. "Handover Ceremonies" (Bayrak Radyo Televizyon Kurumu, 2 September 2013)