Claim: Derviş Eroğlu servied as Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, and also served as member of an assembly.
Evidence: Eroğlu entered the Assembly of the Republic of the then-Turkish Federated State of Northern Cyprus in 1976, serving as Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports during 1976–77. He served as member of the de facto Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Constituent Assembly in November 1983.