Biography - President Tufan ERHÜRMAN
President Tufan Erhürman was born in Lefkoşa in 1970. He graduated from the Türk Maarif College in 1988 and from the Faculty of Law at Ankara University in 1992.
Between 1995 and 2001, he worked as a research officer in the Department of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of Ankara University. During these years, in addition to his position at Ankara University, he also lectured on Introduction to Law, Administrative Law, and Constitutional Law at Hacettepe University and Middle East Technical University (METU).
Between 1999 and 2004, he served on the Draft Law Preparation Commissions for the Ombudsman Institution, established by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Türkiye.
In 2001, he received his Ph.D. in law with his dissertation titled “Extrajudicial Supervision of the Administration and the Ombudsman.”
From 2001 to 2006, he worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU).
He served at the Faculty of Law of Near East University (NEU) from 2006 until 2008 when he returned to EMU.
He also held the position of Vice Dean of the EMU Faculty of Law between 2002–2006 and 2010–2013.
Between 2008 and 2010, he was a member of the Negotiation Team of the Second President, Mehmet Ali Talat.
In the 2013 general election, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Lefkoşa.
In 2014, he became an Associate Professor of Law.
From 2015 to 2016, he served as Secretary-General of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP). He was elected party Chairman at the 26th Ordinary Congress of the CTP and continues to serve in this role.
Following the Early General Elections of 7 January 2018, he served as Prime Minister in the four-party coalition government that was subsequently formed.
He is married and has a son.