İbrahim Kalın | |
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Director of the National Intelligence Organization | |
Assumed office 5 June 2023 | |
President | Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
Preceded by | Hakan Fidan |
Spokesperson of the Presidency of Turkey | |
In office 11 December 2014 – 4 June 2023 | |
President | Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
Preceded by | Ahmet Sever |
Asistant Secretary to the Prime Minister of Turkey | |
In office 2012 – 11 December 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey | |
In office 2009–2012 | |
Preceded by | Ahmet Davutoğlu |
Succeeded by | Kemal Ökem |
Personal details | |
Born | Istanbul, Turkey | September 15, 1971
Political party | Justice and Development Party |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater |
Istanbul University (
BA) George Washington University ( PhD) |
İbrahim Kalın (born September 15, 1971) is a Turkish bureaucrat who is the current director of the National Intelligence Organization. [1] A member of the AK Party, he previously served as the presidential spokesperson and senior advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from 2014 to 2023 and as the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Security and Foreign Policy in the Presidential Complex. [2] [3]
İbrahim Kalın was born in Istanbul into a family from Erzurum. Kalın received his B.A. from the University of Istanbul and Ph.D. from George Washington University under the supervision of Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr. [4] From 2002 to 2005 he was a faculty member at the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. [5] He is a founding member and former director (2005–2009) of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research based in Ankara, Turkey. [6]
He became the first coordinator of the Prime Ministry Public Diplomacy Coordinatorship established in January 2010. In 2012, he became Asistant Secretary of the Prime Ministry. On December 11, 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that İbrahim Kalın would be the first official Turkish Presidential Press Secretary. In November 2018, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Erdogan. [7]
His parents are from İspir, Erzurum. [8] He is married and has 2 children. His hobbies include music, especially folk music. He professionally plays the bağlama, sings and has music on YouTube with millions of views. [9]
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