Deputy Director General of Child Services

He was born in Rize in 1969. He graduated from the Department of Business Administration of the Faculty of Business Administration at Anadolu University. He completed his master's degree at the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association.

He started his career in 1996 as a Counsellor to the Parliament. Later, he worked at the Parliamentary Services Directorate in the Parliament. He worked as the Counsellor of the General Secretary of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Between 2012 and 2014, he served as the Head of the Department of the Employment Policies and Statistics of the Directorate General of Labour at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. Then, in 2014, he became the Deputy Director General of the Directorate General of Labour at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.

He is currently working as the Deputy Director General of Child Services.

Şeref Kazancı is married with two children and speaks English.