Veysel Eroğlu (born 18 August 1948) is a Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar of the ruling Justice and Development Party and a former Minister of Forestry and Water of Turkey.

His achievement in cleaning up the previously malodorous and heavily polluted Golden Horn and permitting the return of many species of fish resulted in the presentation of the Metropolis Award to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

In February 2003 Eroğlu was appointed Director General of State Hydraulic Works (DSİ), a task embracing dams for irrigation, water supply and hydropower generation, as well as flood control.

During the three years he has been in this post, a total of 235 new facilities have been commissioned, enabling irrigation of a further 472,000 ha of land and potable water supplies for an additional 10,000,000 persons.

He was elected to the parliament in 2007 representing İzmir,[4] he was then appointed Minister of the Environment,[5] where, as part of his duties, was responsible for Turkey's strategy and approach to global warming.

In November 2016, he advised the Turkish mothers to sing new lullabies to support Erdoğans aim to become one of leading economies by 2071, the thousandths anniversary of the Battle of Manzikert.