Ahmet Kasif

Ahmet Kaşif (born 1950) is a Turkish Cypriot politician. He is a member of the Assembly of the Republic from Gazimağusa, and he is a member of the National Unity Party. He has been a member of the Assembly since 1990. He is currently running for the presidency of his party and therefore the prime ministry against İrsen Küçük, and the upcoming party congress on 21 October 2012 has caused tension in the country, with many member of the party who are discontented with the current government supporting Kaşif. He served as the Minister of Health between 2009 and 2012, until when he was removed from his position by the prime minister Küçük.

He was born in the village of Nergizli in 1950 and studied medicine at the Istanbul University.