Minister

İbrahim Yumaklı, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry

Mr. Yumaklı was born in 1969 in Kastamonu, Türkiye. He graduated from Uludağ University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 1992.

He started his career at Marshall Boya Inc. in 1993 as an import operations specialist. Until 2011, he worked as manager in the finance sections of Marshall Boya Inc., part of Akzo Nobel Türkiye, and its affiliated group companies. He joined Aljazeera Türkiye in 2011. Between 2012 and 2015, he managed the TV channel owned by Aljazeera Türkiye. He served as Anadolu Agency's International Operations Director between January and October 2016. He worked at GÜBRETAŞ as the General Manager and Executive Board Member as from October 2016.

He was appointed as Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry on 7th of April 2022.

On 3rd of June 2023, he was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, by H.E. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Mr. İbrahim Yumaklı, who speaks English, is married and has two children.​