Erkan Kandemir (born 2 September 1981 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and architect and a member of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey. Erkan is from Rize, Turkey originally and he graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering at Sakarya University, He got a Master's degree from Kingston University in England and in October 2014 he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Turkey.