Khaled Khoja

Khaled Khoja (خالد خوجة, Halid Hoca, born 4 July 1965) is a Syrian-Turkish politician. He was the president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces from 2015 to 2016. He was born to a Turkish family, and can speak both Turkish and Arabic. He is a Turkish citizen since 1993.

Khoja was born in Damascus in 1965. His ethnic background is Syrian Turkmen. He finished his highschool education in Ubari, Libya. During the rule of President Hafez al-Assad Khoja was detained twice. He studied political science in Istanbul University between 1985 and 1987. But later he studied medicine in University of Izmir, Turkey between 1987 and 1995. After the Syrian uprising began in 2011, Khoja participated in founding of several opposition groups, including the Syrian National Council in October 2011. Before being elected as a National Coalition president he served as the National Coalition's representative in Turkey. Khoja resigned from the National Coalition on 25 April 2018.

Halid Hoca changed his name to Alptekin Hocaoğlu after he became a Turkish citizen. He was among the founders of Ahmet Davutoğlu's Future Party in 2019.