Fikri Ià Âñk <small>MP</small> (born 13 September 1965) is a Turkish politician who served as the last Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 2017 to 2018. Previously, he served as Minister of Science, Industry and Technology from 2013 to 2016 and Minister of National Defense from 2016 to 2017. He is a Member of Parliament representing the Kocaeli Province on behalf of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), from 2007 to 2023. Before politics, Ià Âñk was an educator.
Fikri Ià Âñk was born on 13 September 1965 to Tevfik and Mecbure Ià Âñk in the village of Babacan in à Âiran district of Gümüà Âhane Province, Turkey. He studied Mathematics Education at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
Ià Âñk worked as a mathematics and English language teacher in private schools at ðzmit and Istanbul. He served also as manager in the food industry.
Fikri Ià Âñk entered politics on 20 October 2001 through his founding membership of the Justice and Development Party's Kocaeli Province organization. He was elected its chairman on 22 June 2003, serving four years at this post.
In 2007, he left his chair at the regional level to run for a seat in the parliament. Ià Âñk was elected into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the 2007 general election as an MP from Kocaeli Province. He was re-elected a second time into the parliament in the 2011 general election. Between 2007 and 2013, he was responsible in the party headquarters for the coordination of the part's regional organizations in 47 provinces across the country. On 31 January 2013, Ià Âñk became chairman of the parliamentary National Education, Youth and Sports Commission.
On 26 December 2013, Fikri Ià Âñk assumed office as the Minister of Science, Industry and Technology, succeeding Nihat Ergün during ErdoÃÂan's cabinet reshuffle with ten new names that was announced the day before, on 25 December, following the 2013 corruption scandal in Turkey.
Fikri Ià Âñk is married and has four children.