Cem Avşar

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Cem Avşar
Member of the 28th Parliament of Turkey
Assumed office
June 2, 2023
Personal details
Born1988
Istanbul, Turkey
EducationAnglia Ruskin University
OccupationPolitician, businessman

Cem Avşar (born 1988) is a Turkish politician and businessman. He is one of the founding members of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA). He entered the 28th term of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as a Tekirdağ deputy.

Biography[edit]

Avşar was born in 1988 in Bakırköy, Istanbul.[1] His family is from Malatya. He studied economics in Berlin and at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He worked in the construction and tourism sector. He made investments in Çerkezköy and Çorlu regions of Tekirdağ.[2] In 2019, he became the president of Cem Foundation.[1]

In 2020, he became one of the founding members of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA).[3] He was appointed as the Chief Advisor in the party administration in 2021,[4] and as the Head of Local Governments and Urbanism Policies in the Central Executive Board in 2022.[5]

In the 2023 Turkish general elections, he became a 3rd place deputy candidate from the CHP list within the Nation Alliance quota from Tekirdağ province;[6] he entered the TBMM as a 28th term deputy.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Cem Avşar". devapartisi.org.
  2. ^ "CHP'nin 3 numaralı ismi Cem Avşar Odak Haber'e konuştu". 59 Haber Tekirdağ (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  3. ^ "Babacan'ın partisine katılan Cem Vakfı yöneticisi Cem Avşar PİRHA'nın sorularını yanıtladı". PİRHA (in Turkish). 2023-10-08. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  4. ^ "DEVA Partisi, Başkanlık Kurulu üyelerini belirledi". Independent Türkçe (in Turkish). 2021-01-11. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  5. ^ "DEVA Partisi'nde yeni görev dağılımı". devapartisi.org. 2022-04-29.
  6. ^ YAZILIM, NETWORK. "Tekirdağ'da Malatyalı Aday Seçilecek sırada yer aldı". malatyagazetecilercemiyeti.org (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  7. ^ "Cem Avşar'dan teşekkür mesajı". Kapaklı Gazetesi (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-10-08.