Mustafa Atici

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Mustafa Atici (Turkish pronunciation: [musˈtafa ˈatɯtʃɯ]; born 2 October 1969) is a Turkish-born Swiss businessman and politician who currently serves as member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt since 2024 for the Social Democratic Party. He previously served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 2019 to 2023 and on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt from 2005 to 2019. Atici was born 2 October 1969 in Elbistan, Turkey, the fourth of eight children, of grain traders of Kurdish descent. His father was a grain wholesaler who traded the grain of small village producers in Eastern Anatolia in Istanbul. The family was considered upper middle class living on the second floor of a commercial building and sheep, cows and goats on the first floor. He completed primary school in Elbistan, some high school in Gaziantep before entering Pertevniyal High School in Istanbul in 1982. Between 1987 and 1989, he began studying industrial engineering at Gazi University in Ankara. After a brief stay with relatives in Cologne, Germany, he came to Basel in 1991 visiting relatives and decided to study economics at the University of Basel. He received a Master's degree at the European Institute of the University of Basel in 1998. Initially he wanted to go back to Turkey to become a full professor.