Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan

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Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan (b Muş 1957) is Minister for Trade and Industry of Turkey and Member of Parliament of the ruling AKP.

He graduated in mechanical engineering from Gazi University in Ankara in 1980 and went on to a career in the aluminium industry. Before his election to parliament and appointment as Minister in August 2007 he was president of the Ankara Chamber of Industry and vice-president of the The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, who have been lobbying for structural and micro-economic reforms. He is the chairman of two companies Akel Alüminyum A.Ş and Çağlayanlar Alüminyum Limited.