Hüseyin Özgürgün | |
Office: | Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus |
President: | Mustafa Akıncı |
Term Start: | 16 April 2016 |
Term End: | 2 February 2018 |
Predecessor: | Ömer Kalyoncu |
Successor: | Tufan Erhürman |
President1: | Mehmet Ali Talat |
Term Start1: | 23 April 2010 |
Term End1: | 17 May 2010 |
Predecessor1: | Derviş Eroğlu |
Successor1: | İrsen Küçük |
Office2: | Leader of the National Unity Party |
Predecessor2: | İrsen Küçük |
Successor2: | Ersin Tatar |
Term Start2: | 31 August 2013 |
Term End2: | 30 October 2018 |
Predecessor3: | Derviş Eroğlu |
Successor3: | Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu |
Term Start3: | 11 February 2006 |
Term End3: | 16 December 2006 |
Office4: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
President4: | Mehmet Ali Talat Derviş Eroğlu |
Primeminister4: | Derviş Eroğlu İrsen Küçük |
Term Start4: | 4 May 2009 |
Term End4: | 13 June 2013 |
Predecessor4: | Turgay Avcı |
Successor4: | Kutlay Erk |
Term Start6: | 6 December 1998 |
Constituency6: | Lefkoşa (1998,2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2018) |
Birth Place: | Nicosia, Cyprus |
Residence: | North Nicosia, Northern Cyprus |
Party: | National Unity Party |
Alma Mater: | Ankara University |
Children: | 2 |
Hüseyin Özgürgün (born 1965) is a Turkish Cypriot politician and a former Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus. He is the current leader of the National Unity Party (UBP). He was formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.[1] From 23 April to 17 May 2010 he was also Acting Prime Minister.[2] [3] Moreover, he was prime minister of Northern Cyprus from 16 April 2016 to 2 February 2018.
Özgürgün was born in 1965 in Nicosia, where he completed his education up to high school. He then studied political science in Ankara University and graduated in 1988. He was a prolific sportsman, representing Northern Cyprus in basketball, football, volleyball, table tennis and athletics and later serving as a sports administrator. He served as the chairman of Çetinkaya Türk S.K. and led it to a championship. He later worked as an administrator in private businesses.[4]
Özgürgün was first elected as a member of the Assembly of the Republic in the 1998 parliamentary election, representing Lefkoşa District for the UBP.[4] He was later re-elected to the same position in 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2013. He is known to accept bribes from various business people in the country during his career. Currently he is with an arrest warrant in Cyprus thus continuing his life in Turkey.
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