Pelin Gündeş Bakır (born 13 March 1972, in

Kadıköy Kadıköy () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district on the Asian side of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 25 km2, and its population is 467,919 (2023). It is a large and populous area in the Asian si ...

) is a Turkish

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and a professor at

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. She was elected to

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in the 2011 general election as a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy.

Biography

Education and academic career

Pelin Gündeş Bakır was born in Kadıköy in 1972. Her father's name is Erhan and her mother's name is Maral. She is originally from Melikgazi district of Kayseri. Pelin Bakır completed her high school education at Kadıköy Anatolian High School with first place. In 1993, she graduated from the Civil Engineering Department of Yıldız Technical University. In England, she received a diploma in civil engineering from Imperial College London and a master's degree in concrete structures from the same university. In 2000, she received training on disaster management and earthquake issues at FEMA for seven months. She then completed her PhD in earthquake engineering at Istanbul Technical University. Bakır became an associate professor in earthquake and structural engineering at ITU in 2004 and a professor in April 2010. In addition to ITU, he gave lectures at Boğaziçi University and Technische Universität Berlin in Germany.

Political career

Pelin Gündeş Bakır was a candidate for Kayseri 5th place in the 2011 general elections from the Justice and Development Party. With the AK Party winning 7 out of 9 parliamentary seats in Kayseri in the June 12 elections, Pelin Bakır was also entitled to enter the parliament. Thus, she became the third female deputy of Kayseri after Ferruh Güpgüp, a 3rd term deputy, and Sevgi Esen, a 21st term deputy. In October 2011, Bakır was elected as a member of her party's Public Works, Zoning, Transportation and Tourism Commission and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In 2023, she joined the

İYİ Party The Good Party ( Turkish: ''İYİ Parti'') is a nationalist, Kemalist and conservative political party in Turkey, established on 25 October 2017 by Meral Akşener. The party's name and flag is a reference to the tamga of the Kayı tribe. Th ...

. She became a parliamentary candidate from Kayseri, but could not enter the list. Later, she resigned from

. On 3 August 2024, Pelin Gündeş Bakır was elected as the party's chairperson at the Extraordinary General Congress of the Centre Party.

External links

Profile at Istanbul Technical University

Twitter account

References

1972 births Living people People from Kadıköy Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Deputies of Kayseri KU Leuven alumni Istanbul Technical University alumni Alumni of Imperial College London Yıldız Technical University alumni Turkish civil engineers Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey 21st-century Turkish women politicians {{Turkey-politician-stub