Ali Şahin | |
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Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
Assumed office 8 July 2018 | |
Constituency | Gaziantep ( 2018) |
In office 12 June 2011 – 7 June 2015 | |
Constituency | Gaziantep ( 2011) |
Deputy Minister of European Union Affairs | |
Assumed office 29 May 2016 | |
Minister | Ömer Çelik |
In office 9 January 2016 – 24 May 2016 | |
Minister | Volkan Bozkır |
Preceded by | Alaattin Büyükkaya |
Personal details | |
Born | Nizip, Gaziantep, Turkey | 2 January 1970
Political party | Justice and Development Party (AKP) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Karachi |
Ali Şahin (born 2 January 1970) is a Turkish politician who has been Deputy Minister of European Union Affairs since January 2016. [1] [2] He served as a member of parliament for Gaziantep from Justice and Development Party (AKP) between 2011 and 2015. [3] He was a candidate for MP at the June 2015 and November 2015 general elections. He managed to get on the AKP's Gaziantep candidates' lists but did not succeed in being re-elected MP again. [4] He was elected as the TGNA XXVII. period AK Party Gaziantep deputy in the 24 June 2018 parliamentary elections. [5] He served as the AK Party deputy chairman of social policies, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament, and a member of the PACE Turkish Group. [6] The Sitara-i-Pakistan was conferred upon him in 2020 by the president of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi. [7] He is on duty as the chairman of the Turkiye – Pakistan Parliamentary Friendship Group. [8] He was selected as the administrative chief of the presidency of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 9 July 2020. [9] On 6 January 2022, he was selected as the head of the Turkish Delegation of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. [10]
Şahin finished his bachelor's and master's degree in international relations from Karachi University, Pakistan, from 1990 to 1997. [11] He is married, has two children and he is fluent in English, Urdu and Arabic. [12]