Mehmet Özhaseki | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change |
Term Start: | 4 June 2023 |
Term End: | 2 July 2024 |
President: | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Predecessor: | Murat Kurum |
Successor: | Murat Kurum |
Term Start1: | 24 May 2016 |
Term End1: | 10 July 2018 |
Primeminister1: | Binali Yıldırım |
Predecessor1: | Fatma Güldemet Sarı |
Successor1: | Murat Kurum |
Term Start2: | 7 June 2015 |
Term End2: | 2 June 2023 |
Constituency2: | Kayseri (Jun 2015, Nov 2015, 2018) |
Office3: | Mayor of Kayseri |
Term Start3: | 23 June 1998 |
Term End3: | 10 February 2015 |
Predecessor3: | Şükrü Karatepe |
Successor3: | Mustafa Çelik |
Office4: | Mayor of Melikgazi |
Term Start4: | 27 March 1994 |
Term End4: | 23 June 1998 |
Predecessor4: | Şevket Bahçecioğlu |
Successor4: | Memduh Büyükkılıç |
Birth Date: | 25 May 1957 |
Birth Place: | Kayseri, Turkey |
Nationality: | Turkish |
Occupation: | Politician |
Party: | Justice and Development Party |
Mehmet Özhaseki (born 25 May 1957) is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and former Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change.[1] He is a former Mayor of Kayseri.
Mehmet Özhaseki was born in Kayseri, Turkey on 25 May 1957. Özhaseki began his education in Kayseri and went on to study electronic engineering at Hacettepe University. He completed his education at the Istanbul University Faculty of Law.
He was elected to the Melikgazi Municipality in the March 1994 elections. In the 2004 elections he was elected Mayor of Kayseri with 72% of the vote. According to Christopher Caldwell, he attributes his success to "good government".[2] He stood again in the March 2009 election and was re-elected as Mayor of Kayseri. [3]
Özhaseki was elected as a Justice and Development Party (AKP) Member of Parliament for Ankara's Kayseri in the June 2015 general election. He was re-elected in November 2015. He was appointed as the Minister of Environment and Urban Planning in the 65th government of Turkey by Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on 24 November 2015.[4] He was subsequently replaced by Murat Kurum but then reappointed. He was once again replaced by Murat Kurum in 2024.
Environmental issues in Turkey
2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference