Adil Karaismailoğlu (born 1969) is a Turkish politician mechanical engineer and civil servant. Adil Karaismailoğlu was born in

Trabzon Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid E ...

, northern Turkey in 1969. After finishing the Trabzon High School, he studied

Mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

Karadeniz Technical University Karadeniz Technical University ( or KTÜ) is a public research university located in Trabzon, in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. Established in 1955, it is the fourth oldest university in the country. As a public institution, it operates under ...

graduating with the title B.Eng. He later earned his M.Eng. title in Urban Systems and Transportation management from

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. He started his working life at the Transportation Coordination Department of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) in 1995. From 1998 onwards, he worked in the municipality's city bus company

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as an engineer and later in managerial positions. In 2002, he was assigned to the Traffic Control Center of the IBB's Traffic Department as assistant manager for

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and

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. He was appointed Manager of the Transportation Coordination Department on 16 November 2009, and Head of Transportation Department on 23 July 2014. His next positions were Head of Istanbul Real Estate Department at the governmental holding authority

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from July 2016, and Assistant secretary general of the

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from April 2018. He resigned from the post at the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality after the

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's mayor

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took office on 28 June 2019. On 20 September 2019, he was appointed Deputy Minister at the

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. On 28 March 2020, President

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replaced Minister

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in the

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with Karaismailoğlu. He served as Minister of Transport and Infrastructure from 2020 to 2023. In the

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he was elected to the

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from

for the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karaismailoglu, Adil Living people 1969 births People from Trabzon Karadeniz Technical University alumni Turkish mechanical engineers Bahçeşehir University alumni Turkish civil servants Government ministers of Turkey Members of the 66th government of Turkey Ministers of transport and infrastructure of Turkey Deputies of Trabzon Members of the 28th Parliament of Turkey Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians