Member of Parliament, Spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Turkish Parliament, AK Party Deputy Chairman of External Affairs, Ankara
Mr Kiniklioglu was born in Duisburg, Germany in 1965. He completed the Turkish Air Force Academy in 1986 and worked as a Liaison Officer in the Turkish Air Force until 1989. After leaving the Air Force Mr Kiniklioglu studies at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada and obtained a B.A. in Political Science (High Honors). He has a Masters degree in International Relations from Bilkent University, Ankara.
Mr Kiniklioglu worked in a number of embassies in Ankara as political consultant before setting up the Ankara Center for Turkish Policy Studies in 2002. He became editor of the English-language quarterly journal Insight Turkey. In 2004 he was invited to be a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington. Following his fellowship he became founding director of the German Marshall Fund office in Ankara which he set up in 2005. He joined the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in 2007 and entered the Turkish Parliament in the July 2007 general election.
Mr Kiniklioglu writes a weekly column at Today’s Zaman an English-language daily and is a frequent contributor to international media outlets such as the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Mr Kiniklioglu currently holds the positions of AK Party Deputy Chairman of External Affairs and Spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Turkish Parliament. Also he is director of the Center for Strategic Communication (stratim), a non-governmental organization in order to facilitate strategic communication for Turkey both at home and abroad.
Besides his mother tongue he speaks English, German and Russian. Mr Kiniklioglu is married and the father of two children.