Abdulkadir Uraloğlu was born in Trabzon in 1966.
After graduating from the Department of Civil Engineering, Karadeniz Technical University in 1988, he started to work as a field engineer in private sector in the same year.
Starting his professional life at the General Directorate of Highways (KGM) in 1989 at the 12th Regional Directorate of Highways in Erzurum, URALOĞLU held positions as a Survey Team Engineer, Control Engineer, and Control Chief at the 4th Regional Directorate of Highways in Ankara from 1990 to 1998. In 1998, he was appointed as the Chief Engineer of Road Construction Service at the Erzurum Regional Directorate of Highways.
He was appointed as Deputy Regional Director of the Trabzon 10th Regional Directorate in 2003, Director of the Kayseri 6th Regional Directorate in 2005, and Director of the Samsun 7th Regional Directorate in 2006.
After a brief period as Director of the Bursa 14th Region in 2009, Mr. URALOĞLU returned to Samsun and served as Regional Director in Samsun for 6.5 years. Mr. Uraloğlu, who became Director of the İzmir 2nd Region in 2012, was appointed as Director General of General Directorate of Highways by the Presidential Decree issued on July 23, 2018.
In 2012, URALOĞLU was appointed as the Regional Director of the 2nd Regional Directorate in Izmir. Then, he was appointed as the General Director of General Directorate of Highways by the Presidential Decree issued on July 23, 2018.
Mr. Uraloğlu was appointed as the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure by the Presidential Decree No. 2023/284 published in the Official Gazette dated 4 June 2023 and numbered 32211.
URALOĞLU contributed to the implementation of the Build-Operate-Transfer Highway projects as well as the projects for the improvement of Divided Roads, Bituminous Hot Mixture Paved Roads and the single-platform roads, which gained momentum within the scope of the Emergency Action Plan launched in 2003.
In addition to overseeing the construction, planning, and design of new highway, divided road, bridge, and tunnel projects that will provide significant gains to our country's road network, URALOĞLU also attached special importance on research and development activities to renew the KGM Machinery Fleet and increase the rate of domestically-produced vehicle use. Mr. Uraloğlu was actively engaged on the ground to facilitate transportation and fight the effects of the disasters right after the floods in Ünye in 2018, in Araklı in 2019, in Rize-Artvin in 2021, in Ayancık in 2021 and in Kastamonu in 2021; during the wildfires in Antalya-Muğla in 2021; after the earthquakes in Elazığ in 2020 and in İzmir in 2020; and after the earthquakes on February 6.
He also served as Board Chairman of the Turkish Road Association (YTMK) and the Highways Foundation (KAV). He is married and the father of three children.
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