Murat Kurum
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Murat Kurum | |
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.jpg) Kurum in 2023 | |
| Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2024 | |
| President | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Preceded by | Mehmet Özhaseki |
| In office 10 July 2018 – 4 June 2023 | |
| President | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Preceded by | Mehmet Özhaseki |
| Succeeded by | Mehmet Özhaseki |
| Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
| In office 7 June 2023 – 2 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | Istanbul (I) (2023) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 May 1976 |
| Party | Justice and Development Party |
| Spouse |
Şengül Kurum (m. 2000) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Selçuk University (BS) Okan University (MS) |
| Occupation | Politician, engineer |
Murat Kurum is the minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change in Turkey, and president of the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP31.
Murat Kurum was born on May 7, 1976, in Çankaya, Ankara, to Mehmet Kurum of Karapınar, Konya and Satı Kurum of Belpınar, Kızılcahamam, Ankara.[1] His father, Mehmet, was a civil servant at the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, the predecessor to the ministry where Murat would later be appointed to as the minister. His mother, Satı, was a housewife.[2]
Murat Kurum briefly attended Atatürk Primary School in Mardin before moving back to Ankara to finish his primary education at Seyranbağları Primary School. He was then educated at Kocatepe Mimar Kemal High School in Ankara. Kurum later entered the Turkish university entrance exam where he gained admission to a food engineering program. However, he retook the exam the following year to study construction engineering.[3]
He graduated from Selçuk University in 1999 with an engineering degree in construction. Kurum later completed his master's degree with a thesis on urban transformation from Okan University in 2017.[4]
