Veysel Eroğlu is Minister of Environment and Forestry of
Turkey and a Member of Parliament for
Afyon of the ruling
AKP. Born in
Şuhut,
Afyonkarahisar in 1948 he graduated in civil engineering from
Istanbul Technical University, going on to an academic career at the same university until becoming general director of the
Istanbul water board in 1994. Here he is remembered for successfully modernising and cleaning up the city's water supply, which had previously been a victim of corruption and neglect. He became head of the state water authority in 2003, where again he supervised a program of investment for renewal. In the past has campaigned to be AKP mayor of
Istanbul. He was elected to parliament in 2007, becoming minister of environment, where as part of his responsibilities he will be responsible for Turkey's strategy and approach to
global warming.
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