Mahir Yağcılar

Mahir Yağcılar (Serbo-Croat: Mahir Jagčular) (born 6 May 1961 in Prizren, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Turkish Kosovar[a] politician and the president of Turkish nationalist and conservative Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo (KDTP).

Yağcılar graduated from Faculty of Traffic and Communications at the University of Sarajevo 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 Assembly of Kosovo presidency member under United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. Since 2008, he is the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of the Kosovo in the Hashim Thaçi government.

On 12 September 2010, Yağcılar was removed from his post as the chairman of KDTP.[1] Arif Bütüç (Mamuša 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,[2] enabling Yağcılar further bolster his rule.

Notes
a.   ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References
  1. Mahir Yağcılar görevden alındı, 13 September 2010, Hürriyet
  2. Kosova'nın Tek Türk Belediye Başkanı Arif Bütüç Partisinden İhraç Edildi, 27 October 2011, Basın 7/24

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