Mustafa Varank (pronounced ustafäh väränk 1 January 1976) is a Turkish politician and bureaucrat who previously served as the Minister of Industry and Technology. In the

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he was elected to the

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from Bursa 2nd district.

Background

He was born in 1976 in the Of District of the

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city of

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. He attended primary school in Yedikule Ilkokulu and continued to secondary school at Istanbul's Imam-Hatip High School. In 1999, he completed his higher education in

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(Ankara), where he earned degrees in Political Science and Public Administration, after which he began his studies in the United States. There, he proceeded to

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and

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College of Engineering and Computer Science where he worked as a researcher and systems engineer. He left Florida to then earn his master's degree at Pervasive Technology Institute of

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. Varank is married and the father of two children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Varank, Mustafa 1976 births Living people Imam Hatip school alumni Florida Atlantic University alumni Florida State University alumni Ministers of science industry and technology of Turkey Indiana University Bloomington alumni Middle East Technical University alumni People from Of, Turkey Members of the 66th government of Turkey Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Members of the 28th Parliament of Turkey Deputies of Bursa