List Of Turkish Politicians
This is a list of WP:Notability, notable politicians in the Turkey, Republic of Turkey. __NOTOC__ A * Meral AkÅŸener - vice speaker of parliament, leader of İyi Party * Yıldırım Akbulut - prime minister * İsmail Rüştü Aksal - CHP secretary general * Ekrem Alican- YTP leader * Oya Araslı- politician (CHP) * Hamdi Apaydın - First term MP * Saffet Arıkan - Government minister * Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Founder and first President of the Turkey, Turkish Republic * Mehmet Ali Aybar - leader of TİP B * Ali Babacan – vice prime minister * Devlet Bahçeli - leader of MHP - vice prime minister * Cemil Sait Barlas - Government minister * Faik Ahmet Barutçu - Government minister * Celal Bayar - president - leader of DP * Deniz Baykal – leader CHP * Hikmet Bayur - Government minister * Behice Boran - leader of TİP * Ferruh Bozbeyli - Parliament speaker * Mahmut Esat Bozkurt - Government minister * Osman Bölükbaşı -leader of MP C * Necdet Calp -leader of HP * İsmai ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hikmet Bayur
Hikmet Bayur (also known as Yusuf Hikmet Bayur, 1891 – 6 March 1980) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician. He was the grandson of Kâmil Pasha, one of the Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Bayur was born in 1891 in Constantinople. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1908 and from the Faculty of Science of Paris University (University of Paris, Sorbonne) in 1912. After some years in Paris he returned home to teacher at Galatasaray High School in 1912, remaining there until 1920. Career War During the Turkish War of Independence, he joined the Turkish National Movement and fought on the Salihli front. Postwar he was appointed as the director of political affairs. At the end of the war, he was appointed as an adviser to the Turkish delegation to Lausanne Conference of 1922–23, Conference of Lausanne. Republic Turkey was proclaimed as the Turkey, Turkish Republic on 29 October 1923. Bayur was appointed to various embassies and consulatesLondon (1923–1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tansu Çiller
Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She was Turkey's first and only female prime minister. As the leader of the True Path Party, she went on to concurrently serve as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1996 and 1997. As a Professor of Economics, Çiller was appointed Minister of State for the economy by Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel in 1991. When Demirel was elected as President in 1993, Çiller succeeded him as leader of the True Path Party and Prime Minister. Her premiership presided over the intensifying armed conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and the PKK, resulting in Çiller's enacting numerous reforms to national defense. Her government was able to persuade the United States and the European Union to register the PKK as a terrorist organization. However, she was responsible for war crimes and crimes agains ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hatı Çırpan
Hatı Çırpan (formerly Satı Kadın, 1890 – March 21, 1956) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician, one of the first Women in Turkish politics, female members of the parliament in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, elected in the 1935 Turkish general election, 1935 general elections. Life She was born in the village of Kahramankazan in 1890. Her father and mother were Kara Mehmet Efendi and Emine Hanım. She was the wife of a soldier who was wounded in the throat during the Balkan War. She was the mother of five children. She worked as a farmer and village headman after her father. On October 26, 1933, after women were given the right to be mukhtars, she won the elections for the village headman of Kazan and became one of the first female mukhtars in Turkey. Just before the Second Language Congress (''İkinci Türk Dil Kurultayı'', 18–23 August 1934), on July 16, 1934, President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk left Ankara for an excursion to the village of Kazan, Ankara, Ka ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vasıf Çınar
Hüseyin Vasıf Çınar (1895–1935) was a Turkish people, Turkish educator, politician, journalist and diplomat. Early years He was born on Crete. He was of Kurds in Turkey, Kurdish descend, and was the son of Abdullah Hulusi Bey, a son of Emir Bedir Khan Beg, Bedirkhan, Emir of the Bohtan, Bohtan Emirate. In 1892 the Bedirkhan family were sent to exile in Crete by Abdul Hamid II, Abdulhamid II for their alleged influence in the murder of Ridvan Pasha. Most were later allowed to return to Istanbul, other members of the family settled to Europe, Syria and Egypt where they married within the elite and the Royal circles. After highschool he studied law. Between 1915 and 1918 he served as a teacher with his close friend Mustafa Necati. After the occupation of İzmir on 15 May 1919 by the Greek army however, they went to Balıkesir to publish a newspaper named ''İzmir'e DoÄŸru'' ("Towards İzmir") to support the nationalistic resistance . They also founded a society named ''Red'i i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hikmet Çetin
Hikmet Çetin (born 10 August 1937) is a Turkish retired politician of Kurdish origin. He held various national posts during his career, including Foreign Affairs Minister (1991–1994) and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly (1997–1999). In November 2003, he was appointed NATO's inaugural Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan. Early life He was born in Lice, a town in the southeastern Diyarbakır Province. After completing primary school in his hometown and high school in Ankara, he graduated in 1960 with a B.A. degree in Economics and Finance from Ankara University's School of Political Sciences. After completing his education, Hikmet Çetin joined the State Planning Organization ( Turkish: ''Devlet Planlama TeÅŸkilatı'', ''DPT''). Shortly after, he was sent abroad and also to the United States, where he received his M.A. in "''Economics of development''" from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. In 1968, he did research work on "''Plannin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Mevlüt ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu (; born 5 February 1968) is a Turkish diplomat and politician who is currently a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Grand National Assembly. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Turkey), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from August 2014 to August 2015, and again from 24 November 2015 to 6 June 2023. First elected to Parliament in the 2002 Turkish general election, 2002 general election, he is a founding member of the Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2010 to 2012. He previously served in the same position from August 2014 to August 2015. Early life and education ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu was born at Alanya, Antalya Province, Turkey. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science in 1988, where he studied international relations. He then recei ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fevzi Çakmak
Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak (12 January 1876 – 10 April 1950) was a Turkish field marshal (''MareÅŸal (Turkey), MareÅŸal'') and politician. He served as the Chief of General Staff from 1918 and 1919 and later the Imperial Government (Ottoman Empire), Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire in 1920. He later joined the provisional Government of the Grand National Assembly and became the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister, Ministry of National Defense (Turkey), Minister of National Defense and later as the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1921 to 1922. He was the second List of the Chiefs of the Turkish General Staff, Chief of the General Staff of the provisional Government of the Grand National Assembly, Ankara Government and the first Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Turkey. Graduating from the War College as a Staff (military), Staff Captain (land), Captain and assigned to the 4th Department of the General Staff, Mustafa Fevzi participated in numerous ba ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil
İhsan Sabri ÇaÄŸlayangil (1 January 1908, Istanbul – 30 December 1993, Ankara, Turkey) was a Turkish politician and diplomat who served as Acting President of Turkey in 1980, from the Justice Party (). He also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs three times in the 1960s and 1970s. Background and personal life ÇaÄŸlayangil was born in Istanbul in 1908 as the son of a man named M. Sabri. He graduated from Saint-Joseph High School. Then he entered the School of Law at Istanbul University and graduated in 1932. He was married to Firuzende ÇaÄŸlayangil starting in 1953 and had a daughter named Fatma Itir ÇaÄŸlayangil. Career After completing his studies he became a civil servant and was in charge of the arrangements for the trial and the hanging of Seyit Riza and several Kurdish leaders of the Dersim Rebellion. In 1948 he became governor of the Yozgat province, which was followed by stints as governor of Çanakkale in 1953 then Sivas in 1954 until he went to Bursa. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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İsmail Cem
İsmail Cem (born İsmail Cem İpekçi, 15 February 1940 – 24 January 2007) was a Turkish Centre-left politics, centre-leftist politician, intellectual, writer, author and journalist who served as the Minister of Culture (Turkey), Minister of Culture of Turkey from July 7 to October 26, 1995, and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Turkey), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from June 30, 1997 to July 11, 2002. Background İsmail Cem finished high school at Robert College in İstanbul in 1959 and graduated from the Law School at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1963. He had his master's degree in sociology of politics at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in 1983, Paris, France. He was an exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs at Piedmont High School (California), Piedmont High School, Piedmont California for one year during his high school years after Işık Koleji. Cem was the cousin of murdered liberal-leftist journalist, intellectual and human r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Necdet Calp
Necdet Calp (September 7, 1922 – September 13, 1998) was a Turkish civil servant and politician. Early life He was born in Karamürsel ilçe of Kocaeli Province, Turkey on 7 September 1922. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science of Ankara University in 1944. He also studied at the London School of Economics. He served as district governor, inspector in the Ministry of Interior as well as province governor of Siirt and İzmir. He also served as executive assistant to İsmet İnönü, then prime minister of Turkey. During the military rule between 1980 and 1983, he was the undersecretary of the prime minister Bülent Ulusu. Leader of the opposition On 21 May 1983 together with Avni Güler, Engin Aydın and Turhan Timuçin, he founded People's Party (, HP) in the course of Republican People's Party (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP), which was closed by the military rule. He was elected as the chairman of the party. After the main rival SODEP was banned from ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Osman Bölükbaşı
Osman Bölükbaşı (1913 – February 6, 2002) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician and political party leader. Early life He was born at Hasanlar village of the former Mucur district in 1913. He completed his secondary education at the Istanbul High School. He studied Mathematics at the Nancy-Université, University of Nancy in France graduating in 1937. Returned home in 1938, Bölükbaşı began working as assistant to Fatin Gökmen at the Kandilli Observatory in Istanbul. In 1940, he took a teacher post in the HaydarpaÅŸa High School, where he served until 1946. Political career Introduced to Mehmet Fuat Köprülü and Celal Bayar, the co-founders of the Democrat Party (Turkey, historical), Democrat Party (DP) by Fatin Gökmen, Osman Bölükbaşı entered politics in 1946 becoming a party member. He was appointed Inspector General of the DP. However, he left the party in 1947 along with some other members due to a controversy over the intention of making harsh politics ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |