He served as the first leader of the Communal Democracy Party (TDP) between 2007 and 2013 and has been a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 2003.

He received an award from the Turkish Cypriot Security Forces Command for his successful work aimed at reducing suicides in the Turkish Cypriot military and became the head of the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Literature of the Near East University.

He then sustained an active life in non-governmental professional organizations, including the leadership of the Turkish Cypriot Association of Mental Disorders and the Secretary General of the Turkish Cypriot Medical Association.

[3] He resigned from his position in 2013, after his party won 3 seats in the parliament in what he deemed as a failure to keep his promise.

[4] In November 2016, Çakıcı resigned from the TDP, claiming that the party had been rendered a place where nepotism was rife by the policies of his successor, Cemal Özyiğit.