Mahir Yağcılar

Mahir Yağcılar (6 May 1961 in Prizren, SFR Yugoslavia – present-day Kosovo) is a Turkish Kosovar politician and the former president of conservative Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo (KDTP).

Yağcılar graduated from Faculty of Traffic and Communications at the University of Sarajevo in 1984. He had worked as a manager at the Kosovar transportation company Kosovatrans. In April 2000, he was elected the president of KDTP (then Turkish Democratic Union). He had served as the Minister of Health and Assembly of Kosovo presidency member under UNMIK. Since 2008, he is the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Kosovo in Hashim Thaçi government.

On 12 September 2010, Yağcılar was removed from his post as the chairman of KDTP.^[1]

References

1. ^ Mahir Yağcılar görevden alındı, 13 September 2010, Hürriyet

Sources

• Profile at the Ministry website
• OSCE 2004 elections pamphlet

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Name	Yagcilar, Mahir
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Date of birth	6 May 1961
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