Mevlut CAVUSOGLU
PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY(PACE)
Born in Alanya, Turkey on 5 February 1968 Married to Hulya Cavusoglu, father of one daughter, Irem.
Academic Career
Research Fee London School of Economics 1993-1995
M.A. Economics Long Island University, NY, USA 1990-1991
B.A. Int. Relations Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey 1984-1988
Present
Founding Member of AK Party 2001-
Member of Parliament for Antalya 2002-
Past Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Vice President Parliamentary Assembly (APCE) Chairman Turkish 2007-08/2009/10
Delegation to PACE Chairman Committee on Migration, Refugees and 2007-2010
Population Chairman Sub-Committee on Migration Chairman 2006-2008
Sub-Committee on Tourism Development; the 2007-2010
Committee on Economic Affairs and Development 2nd Vice 2004-2006
Chairman European Democrat Group Member Political Affairs Committee 2009-2010
Monitoring Committee Committee on Economic Affairs and Development 2008-2010
Member Turkish Delegation to PACE 2003-2010
Rapporteur Commemorating the victims of the Great Famine (Holodomor) in the Former 2009-
USSR-Political Affairs Committee Rapporteur Persons unaccounted for as a result of
armed conflicts or internal violence in the Balkans; Migration Committee Co-rapporteur 2004-2007
The functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Monitoring 2006-2010
Committee
Grand National Assembly of Turkey and Justice and Development Party (AK Party)
Turkey-USA Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Caucus 2007-2010
Chairman Turkey-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Caucus 2003-2007
Vice Chairman AK Party’s Foreign Affairs Department 2001-2009
European Security and Defence Assembly
Chairman Turkish Delegation to the European Security
and Defence Assembly 2007-2010 Member Standing Committee and Political
Committee 2003-2007 Member Turkish Delegation 2003-2007