Özdil Nami (born 23 May 1967) is a British-born

Turkish Cypriot Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr, Kıbrıs Türkleri or ''Kıbrıslı Türkler''; el, Τουρκοκύπριοι, Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,00 ...

politician. He has served as the

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and the Turkish Cypriot Special Representative in the negotiations to solve the

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. He currently serves as the Minister of Economy and Energy of Northern Cyprus. Nami was born in London on 23 May 1967. He studied business in the

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus strait. It has six facult ...

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, graduating in 1988, and went on to complete a

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in finance in the

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in 1991. After his return to Cyprus, he started to work in the company of his family, Erdil & Sons Ltd as a director. Between 1993 and 1997, he delivered business lectures in the

Eastern Mediterranean University ) , country = North Cyprus ( Recognised only by Turkey) , website www.emu.edu.tr The Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU; tr, Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi) is a public university in Northern Cyprus. It was established in 1979 under the leade ...

Near East University Near East University (NEU; tr, Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi, commonly referred to as YDÜ) is a private university located in North Cyprus. It was founded in North Nicosia in 1988, by Suat Günsel, a Turkish Cypriot who is the 100% owner of NEU. ...

and the

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. He was appointed in 1997 as an adviser to the President

Rauf Denktaş Rauf Raif Denktaş (27 January 1924 – 13 January 2012) was a Turkish Cypriot politician, barrister and jurist who served as the founding president of Northern Cyprus. He occupied this position as the president of the Turkish Republic of North ...

on political analysis and took part in the negotiations to solve the Cyprus dispute until 2000. He then served as a Councillor at the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce in 2000 and 2001 and as the Chairperson of Cyprus Turkish Businessmen Association between 2001 and 2003. In the 2003 parliamentary election, he was elected as a member of the

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for the

Republican Turkish Party The Republican Turkish Party ( tr, Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, CTP) is a social-democratic political party in Northern Cyprus. The party was founded in 1970 by Ahmet Mithat Berberoğlu, a lawyer, in opposition to the leadership of Fazıl Küçü ...

(CTP), representing the

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and in February 2005. He was re-elected to the same position in the parliament in

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and appointed to the position of the Turkish Cypriot Special Representative for the negotiations under President

Mehmet Ali Talat Mehmet Ali Talat (born 6 July 1952) is a Turkish Cypriot politician who served as the president of Northern Cyprus from 2005 to 2010. Talat was the leader of the social democratic Republican Turkish Party ( tr, Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, CTP), ...

, serving in that position until Talat's replacement by

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and 2013 parliamentary elections. On 1 September 2013, he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Northern Cyprus in the Yorgancıoğlu cabinet. On 11 May 2015, he resigned from his position as a minister after being appointed by the newly elected President

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as his Special Representative in the negotiations; Nami had already taken over this position on 4 May. On 2 February 2018, he assumed the role of the Minister of Economy and Energy in the

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References

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