Zafer Çağlayan

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Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan (b Muş 1957) is Minister of State Turkey and Member of Parliament of the ruling Justice and Development Party.

Çağlayan graduated in mechanical engineering from Gazi University in Ankara in 1980 and went on to a career in the aluminium industry. Before his election to parliament and appointment as Minister in August 2007 he was president of the Ankara Chamber of Industry and vice-president of the The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, who have been lobbying for structural and micro-economic reforms. He was the chairman of two companies Akel Alüminyum A.Ş and Çağlayanlar Alüminyum Limited.

Çağlayan is married and has two children.

External links

• Akel Metal
• Biyografi.net bio (Turkish)

Political offices
Preceded by Ali Babacan	Minister of Economy of Turkey 2011–present	Succeeded by incumbent

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Name	Caglayan, Mehmet Zafer
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Date of birth	1957
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