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İrsen Küçük (1940 – 10 March 2019) was a
Turkish Cypriot Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( or ; ) are so called ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots are mainly Sunni Muslims. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers were given land onc ...
politician who was
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of
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from 2010 to 2013. He was the nephew of the
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's first vice-president, Fazıl Küçük.


Early life and education

Küçük was born in
Nicosia Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia and LefkoÅŸa, is the capital and largest city of Cyprus. It is the southeasternmost of all EU member states' capital cities. Nicosia has been continuously inhabited for over 5,500 years and has been the capi ...
in 1940 and graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of the
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in 1966, and then started to work at the State Hydraulic Engineering Bureau of Turkey. He got a master's degree in 1969 in irrigations threads. Subsequently, he was industrial engineer at the Veterinary Office of Northern Cyprus between 1968 and 1973, before he became self-employed in the field of agriculture and livestock in the private sector.


Political career and terms as Prime Minister

Shortly thereafter, he joined the
National Unity Party The National Unity Party, National United Party, Party of National Unity or National Unity Front may refer to: * National United Party of Afghanistan (founded 2003) * National Unity Party (Albania) * National United Party (Armenia), defunct * Natio ...
(UBP) and was elected in 1976 and 1981 as a representative of Nicosia in the Provisional Parliament. In July 1976, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the first cabinet of Nejat Konuk and exercised this office in the subsequent governments of Osman Örek and Mustafa Çağatay until 1981. He was then Minister of Natural Resources and Energy in the Çağatay government between 1981 and 1982, before being Minister of Health, Social Affairs and Labor in his cabinet from 1982 to 1983. In December 1983, he was nominated as one of its candidates for the first elections to the first Assembly of the Republic on 23 June 1985. In the elections, he was elected representative and reelected in the early elections in 1993 for the constituency of Nicosia. At the same time he was chairman of the National Unity Party in the district of Nicosia. After the parliamentary elections of 6 December 1998, he was appointed in the Derviş Eroğlu coalition government and took office of Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and re-appointed in June 2001. After the electoral defeat of the UBP in the parliamentary elections in December 2003, he retired from the government and was instead 2004 Secretary General of the UBP. The next
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on 18 April 2009 were re-won by the UBP, which now had an absolute majority. After the election of Derviş Eroğlu and led by Hüseyin Özgürgün transitional government, he was on 9 May 2010 chairman of the UBP and finally on 17 May 2010 also officially prime minister. On 5 June 2013, he resigned after was ousted by a
vote of no confidence A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion or vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fi ...
in the Assembly. On 13 June 2013,
Sibel Siber Sibel Siber (born 13 December 1960) is a Turkish Cypriot politician. She served as the Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus between 13 June 2013, following the fall of the government of İrsen Küçük in a vote of no confidence, and 2 September 20 ...
followed him as prime minister. On 5 June 2013, he resigned after was ousted by a
vote of no confidence A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion or vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fi ...
in the Assembly. On 13 June 2013,
Sibel Siber Sibel Siber (born 13 December 1960) is a Turkish Cypriot politician. She served as the Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus between 13 June 2013, following the fall of the government of İrsen Küçük in a vote of no confidence, and 2 September 20 ...
followed him as prime minister. He died on 10 March 2019 at the age of 79.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kucuk, Irsen 1940 births 2019 deaths Politicians from Nicosia National Unity Party (Northern Cyprus) politicians Prime ministers of Northern Cyprus Government ministers of Northern Cyprus Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Northern Cyprus) Leaders of political parties in Northern Cyprus 21st-century prime ministers of Northern Cyprus Turkish Cypriot expatriates in Turkey Ankara University alumni