Mahir Yağcılar ( Serbo-Croat: ''Mahir Jagčular'') (born 6 May 1961 in Prizren,

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) is a Turkish Kosovar politician and the president of

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and conservative

Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo The Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo ( tr, , sq, Partia Demokratike Turke e Kosovës) is a political party in Kosovo that represents the Turkish minority. It is led by Mahir Yağcılar, the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning in ...

(KDTP). Yağcılar graduated from Faculty of Traffic and Communications at the

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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

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presidency member under

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. Since 2008, he is the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of the

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in the

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government. On 12 September 2010, Yağcılar was removed from his post as the chairman of KDTP. Arif Bütüç (

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mayor) and Orhan Lopar were expected to replace Yağcılar in joint leadership but Yağcılar was restored. Yağcılar's rival Bütüç was expelled from the party on 19 October 2011,Kosova'nın Tek Türk Belediye Başkanı Arif Bütüç Partisinden İhraç Edildi
27 October 2011, Basın 7/24 enabling Yağcılar further bolster his rule.

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2004 elections pamphlet {{DEFAULTSORT:Yagcilar, Mahir Living people 1961 births Government ministers of Kosovo People from Prizren University of Sarajevo alumni Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo politicians Turkish nationalists Kosovan people of Turkish descent