İbrahim Kalın


İbrahim Kalın is a Turkish bureaucrat and Islamic studies scholar. Ambassador Kalin currently serves as the presidential spokesperson of Turkish Presidency. In 2018 he was appointed as deputy chairman of the Security and Foreign Policy Council of Turkish Presidency and chief adviser to the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He currently serves as the presidential spokesperson and special adviser to the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Kalın received his B.A. from the University of Istanbul and Ph.D. from George Washington University. From 2002 to 2005 he was a faculty member at the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a founding member and former director of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research based in Ankara, Turkey.
His interviews and columns have appeared in the Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, al-Sharq al-Awsat, al-Ahram, al-Jazeera Network, al-Arabiyya and Daily Sabah

Bureaucratic carrier

He became the first coordinator of the Prime Ministry Public Diplomacy Coordinatorship established in January 2010. In 2012, he became Deputy Undersecretary of the Prime Ministry. On December 11, 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that İbrahim Kalın would be the first official Turkish Presidential Press Secretary. In November 2018 he was appointed as Chief Adviser to Erdogan.

Personal life

He is married and has 3 children. His hobby is music, especially folk music. He plays the bağlama.

Selected works

;As author
;As editor
;As contributor