Sinan Aygün

Sinan Aygün — Biography

Sinan Aygün is a businessman who headed the Ankara Chamber of Commerce for about fourteen years and then entered politics as a CHP member of parliament. He works in construction contracting and the building-materials trade, and also chaired the Chambers of Commerce Council within the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey.

He completed primary, middle and high school in Ankara and graduated from the English Language and Literature department at Gazi University before going into trade. Elected president of the Ankara Chamber of Commerce in 1997, he held the post until 2011 and, from 2005 to 2011, also chaired the Chambers of Commerce Council within the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey. He then moved from business representation into politics: in the 12 June 2011 general election he stood third on the CHP list in Ankara's second district, won, and entered the 24th-term parliament. In parliament he sat on the Human Rights Inquiry Committee and the Turkey-Peru Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In December 2019 he resigned from the CHP after a widely covered public dispute with Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Mansur Yavaş.