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 FREEDOM
AND REFORM PARTY MP FOR GAZİMAĞUSA
Turgay
Avcı was born in Larnaka in 1959. After graduating from Namık Kemal
High School in Gazi Mağusa, he studied Electric Electronics
Engineering at Beirut American University and graduated in 1985.
He received his masters degree in Business at Eastern Mediterranean
University (EMU) in 1992 and have a doctorate from Çukurova
University on Administration and Organization.
He
served in EMU from 1990 to 2003 respectively as the Deputy Chairman
of the Business Administration, the Director of the School of Tourism
and Hospitality Management and as the Deputy Rector. He attended
trainings in USA and Germany in the fields of tourism, administration
and quality.
He also
served as the President of EMU Tourism Research Centre and EMU
Strategic Research Centre. He was a Member of North Cyprus Atatürk
Research and Implementation Centre and Member of the State
Television (BRT) Board. In public sector, he served as a Member of
the Advisory Council, Specialization Commission, Tourism Master
Plan Working Committee, Tourism Advisory Committee, and Human
Resource and Education Committee.
In 14
December 2003 General Elections and later in 20 February 2005 early
elections he was elected to the Parliament as National Unity
Party’s Gazi Magusa MP. After serving as the Secretary General
of the National Unity Party, he resigned from his party and formed
Freedom and Reform Party. He took part in the Republican Turkish
Party-United Forces and Freedom and Reform Party coalition
government, which was formed in 25 September 2006, as the Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He
speaks English, Italian and Arabic. He is married, with two
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