Faiz SucuoÄŸlu (born 27 August 1961) is a Turkish Cypriot politician who was the
prime minister of Northern Cyprus
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic.
The president is head of state and the prime minister head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive p ...
from 5 November 2021 to 12 May 2022.
Biography
SucuoÄŸlu was born in
Polis
Polis (: poleis) means 'city' in Ancient Greek. The ancient word ''polis'' had socio-political connotations not possessed by modern usage. For example, Modern Greek πόλη (polē) is located within a (''khôra''), "country", which is a πατ ...
on 27 August 1961. His father, Mehmet Salih SucuoÄŸlu (died 2018), later served as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Settlement in Northern Cyprus.
After graduating from the Nicosia Turkish High School ( Turkish: ''Lefkoşa Türk Lisesi''), he attained a scholarship from the German government to study medicine in that country. He completed his medical education by studying his final two years at the
Istanbul University
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Çapa Faculty of Medicine. He then specialised in
obstetrics and gynaecology
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at the Zeynep Kamil Hospital in Istanbul, and worked there after the completion of his training until 1993, when he returned to Cyprus. He subsequently served in the military and opened his private clinic, where he worked for 20 years.
Career
He served as the head of the
LefkoÅŸa District
Lefkoşa District () is a district of Northern Cyprus. It is divided into two sub-districts: Lefkoşa Sub-district and Değirmenlik Sub-district.National Unity Party between 2011 and 2013. He was elected to parliament, representing Lefkoşa for the UBP, in the 2013 election. He served as the Minister of Tourism in the Kalyoncu cabinet in 2013, and as the Minister of Health in the Özgürgün cabinet in 2016–2017. He was re-elected as an MP in 2018.
He was elected as the leader of the UBP on 31 October 2021, garnering votes of 60.6% of the party members.
Premiership
SucuoÄŸlu formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party and became Prime Minister on 5 November 2021.