Ali Şahin | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Term Start1: | 8 July 2018 |
Constituency1: | Gaziantep (2018) |
Term Start2: | 12 June 2011 |
Term End2: | 7 June 2015 |
Constituency2: | Gaziantep (2011) |
Office3: | Deputy Minister of European Union Affairs |
Term Start3: | 29 May 2016 |
Minister3: | Ömer Çelik |
Term Start4: | 9 January 2016 |
Term End4: | 24 May 2016 |
Minister4: | Volkan Bozkır |
Predecessor4: | Alaattin Büyükkaya |
Birth Date: | 2 January 1970 |
Birth Place: | Nizip, Gaziantep, Turkey |
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]