Mustafa Varank

Mustafa Varank (pronounced [mustafäh väränk]; 5 February 1976) is a Turkish politician and bureaucrat who previously served as the Minister of Industry and Technology.

Mustafa Varank
Minister of Industry and Technology
In office 10 July 2018 – 4 June 2023
President	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Preceded by	Faruk Özlü
Succeeded by	Mehmet Fatih Kacır
Personal details
Born	(1976-02-05) 5 February 1976 (age 49) Of, Trabzon, Turkey
Political party	Justice and Development Party
Education	Middle East Technical University Indiana University Bloomington

Mustafa Varank in 2018

In the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from Bursa 2nd district.^[1]

Background

He was born in 1976 in the Of District of the Black Sea city of Trabzon. He attended primary school in Yedikule Ilkokulu and continued to secondary school at Istanbul's Imam-Hatip High School. In 1999, he completed his higher education in Middle East Technical University (Ankara), where he earned degrees in Political Science and Public Administration, after which he began his studies in the United States.^[2]

There, he proceeded to Florida State University and Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering and Computer Science where he worked as a researcher and systems engineer. He left Florida to then earn his master's degree at Pervasive Technology Institute of Indiana University Bloomington.^[3]

Varank is married and the father of two children.