Mehmet Ersoy

Mehmet Nuri Ersoy is a Turkish businessman and politician currently serving as the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey. Born in Istanbul in 1968, he studied business administration at Istanbul University. Before entering government, he established a significant career in the tourism industry, founding the ETS group in 1991 and later expanding into hotel management and aviation with Voyage Hotels Group and AtlasGlobal. He was appointed to his ministerial position by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2018.