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1946 In Turkey
Events in the year 1946 in Turkey. Parliament * 7th Parliament of Turkey (up to 5 August) * 8th Parliament of Turkey Incumbents *President – İsmet İnönü *Prime Minister :: Şükrü Saracoğlu ( up to 7 August) ::Recep Peker (from 7 August) * Leader of the opposition :: Celal Bayar (from 7 January) Ruling party and the main opposition * Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP) * Main opposition – Democrat Party (DP) Cabinet :: 14th government of Turkey (up to 7 August) :: 15th government of Turkey (from 7 August) Events *7 January – Democrat Party (DP) was founded *29 March – Treaty with Iraq *5 April – carried the remains of the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Münir Ertegün, from New York to İstanbul *31 May – 1946 Varto–Hınıs earthquake * 21 July – General elections (CHP 396 seats, DP 61 seats, Independents7 seats) *8 August – Soviet Union proposed to change the status of the straits *21 October – Turkey rejected Soviet propo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Parliament Of Turkey
The 7th Grand National Assembly of Turkey existed from 28 February 1943 to 5 August 1946. There were 492 MPs in the parliament, all of which were the members of the Republican People's Party (CHP). But towards the end of the term some issued from CHP to form Democrat Party (DP) Main parliamentary milestones Some of the important events in the history of the parliament are the following:Türkiye'nin 75 Yılı; Tempo Yayıncılık, İstanbul *8 March 1943- İsmet İnönü was reelected as the President of Turkey for the third time. *9 March 1943 –Şükrü Saracoğlu of CHP formed the 14th government of Turkey. *2 August 1944- The parliament decided to suspend Turco-German relations *10 January 1945 –''Law 4695'': The text of the constitution was revised to replace non Turkish words with the Turkish equivalents. *10 January 1945 – ''Law 4696'' Four Arabic month names were changed to Turkish month names. *23 February – Parliament approved declaration of war to Germany and Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemal Unakıtan
Kemal Unakıtan (February 14, 1946 – October 12, 2016) was the Minister of Finance of Turkey from November 2002 to May 2009 and a Member of Parliament for Istanbul of the Justice and Development Party. He was born in Edirne. Previously he was a board member of the Family Finance Group. During his tenure as minister of finance Unakitan presided over a number of situations primarily the Treasury's need to raise funds (!) at a time when Turkey had a large national debt and was failing to collect taxes to cover it. Unakıtan therefore * sold forestry land to raise funds for the treasury * raised fuel duties and other indirect taxation plus * imposed extra duties and payments such as his "permanent earthquake fund" On March 7, 2008, Unakıtan received the Finance Minister of the Year Award from the business magazine The Banker. He died on October 12, 2016 after a prolonged illness. Books * Nedim Şener Nedim Şener (; born 28 November 1966 in Germany) is a Turkish writer a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saffet Arıkan
Saffet Arıkan (1888–1946) was a Turkish politician and former government minister. Biography He was born in Erzincan, Ottoman Empire. In 1910 he graduated from the Military Academy. After a brief service in Yemen, he was appointed to an office work in İstanbul. In 1915 he fought in the Battle of Gully Ravine (''Kerevizdere'') during the Dardanelles Campaign. Later he also served in the Mesopotamia. After the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I, he joined the nationalists in the Turkish War of Independence. He served briefly as the military attache of the newly founded Turkey in Moscow. Beginning by 8 August 1923, he was elected as an MP in the 2nd Parliament of Turkey. He was reelected in the following terms. In the 8th, 9th and the 10th government of Turkey he was the Minister of Education and in the 12th government of Turkey he was the Minister National Defence. Between 1942 and 1944 he was the Turkish ambassador to Germany. He is known as one of the pione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevzat Tandoğan
Abdullah Nevzat Tandoğan (1894 – 9 July 1946) was the fourth mayor and governor of Ankara serving between 1929 and 1946. He committed suicide upon a political scandal he was involved in. Early life and career Abdullah Nevzat was born into a wealthy family in 1894 at Istanbul, then Ottoman Empire. His father was from Sarajevo and his mother from Belgrade. He completed his education in Istanbul Law School, today Istanbul University Faculty of Law. After the Surname Law was enacted in Turkey in 1934, he adopted the family name Tandoğan. He was married, and had two children. During World War I, he served as an intelligence officer in the Ottoman Army in Istanbul. In the later years of the war, he began a career as a school teacher in Istanbul. In 1918, he entered police service. After serving at leading posts in various police departments, he quit. He became Governor of Malatya in 1925 before he entered politics from the Republican People's Party (CHP) and was elected int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oral Çalışlar
Oral Çalışlar (born 14 December 1946, Tarsus) is a Turkish journalist and writer, currently columnist for ''Radikal'' and '' Serbestiyet'', after briefly working as editor-in-chief of ''Taraf''. He was previously a columnist for ''Cumhuriyet'' (1992–2008) and ''Radikal'' (2008–2013). Today's Zaman, 15 January 2013Çalışlar becomes Taraf's new editor-in-chief/ref> In the 1960s he participated in the student movement and contributed to '' Aydınlık.'' He was imprisoned for three years after the 1971 Turkish coup d'état. He became editor of newly re-established '' Aydınlık'' in 1978 and was imprisoned again after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. As a benefactor of an amnesty, he was eventually released in 1988. From 1990 and 1992 he settled in Hamburg, following an invitation by the cities senate. In 1993 he interviewed two personalities of the Kurdish left-wing politics, Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Kemal Burkay the chairman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fikret Kızılok
Fikret Kızılok (November 10, 1946 – September 22, 2001) was a Turkish rock musician. He was a pioneer of Anatolian rock, a prolific songwriter, impresario, multi-instrumentalist, and an early experimentalist. Due to a heart disease, he died on September 22, 2001. Early life Kızılok was introduced to music during his secondary school years at the Galatasaray High School, a top high school in Turkey that produced music legends Barış Manço and Timur Selçuk as well, although Kızılok went on later to study dentistry. His first instrument was an accordion. He took his first music lessons from one of his classmates' father. His first performance was at Taksim Belediye Gazinosu, as April 23 celebrations. He performed here, with his group named Fikret Kızılok and the Band. Their biggest hit was a cover of a famous folksong 'Tamzara'. Career He switched to rhythm guitar in 1963 when he met Cahit Oben. Together, they formed the group Cahit Oben 4, with Koray Oktay on bass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cahit Berkay
Cahit is a Turkish given name for males. It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid (Arabic: جاهِد ''jāhid''), which means "effort, strive" or " endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb ''jahada'' (Arabic: َجَهَد) "to do effort to get something - be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious". People named Cahit include: * Cahit Arf Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem ... (1910–1997), Turkish mathematician * Cahit Külebi (1917–1997), Turkish poet * Cahit Paşa (born 1973), Turkish footballer * Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–1956), Turkish poet and author * Cahit Kayaoğlu, Turkish Actor (Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu) {{given name Turkish masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zülfü Livaneli
Ömer Zülfü Livaneli (born 20 June 1946), is a Turkish musician, author, poet, and politician. Livaneli was imprisoned several times during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état because of his political views and had to leave Turkey in 1972 and went on exile. He lived in Stockholm, Paris, Athens, and New York where he met and collaborated with artists and intellectuals such as Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Peter Ustinov among others. Livaneli returned to Turkey in 1984. His works and cultural and political activities and contributions to world peace were recognized by UNESCO in 1995 when he was appointed Goodwill Ambassador to UNESCO. He quit this UNESCO post in 2016 to protest the Turkish State's damage to the historic Kurdish Old Town of Diyarbakir. He served a term in the Turkish Parliament as well as in the Council of Europe. Personal life Livaneli's real name is Ömer Zülfü Livanelioğlu. He comes from a family of Georgian descent. His father was a judge and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
52nd Government Of Turkey
The 52nd government of Turkey (30 October 1995 – 6 March 1996) was a caretaker coalition government formed by True Path Party (DYP) and Republican People's Party (CHP). Background The 50th government of Turkey came to an end because Deniz Baykal of CHP asked for an earlier date for the scheduled elections. Prime minister Tansu Çiller tried a minority government, but the 51st government of Turkey could not receive the vote of confidence. Tansu Çiller accepted Deniz Baykal's proposal, and the 52nd government was formed as a caretaker government until the elections. In the government, most of the DYP ministers kept the same seats they held in the 51st government. The government In the list below, the serving period of cabinet members who served only a part of the cabinet's lifespan are shown in the column "Notes". According to the Turkish constitution The Constitution of the Republic of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasası), also known as the Constitution of 1982, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
51st Government Of Turkey
The 51st government of Turkey (5 October 1995 – 30 October 1995) was a minority government led by Tansu Çiller. Background Both the 49th government of Turkey, 49th and 50th government of Turkey, 50th governments were True Path Party and Social Democratic Populist Party (Turkey), Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) coalition governments, but after SHP merged with Republican People's Party (CHP) and Deniz Baykal was elected as the new leader of CHP, CHP stipulated an earlier date for the scheduled elections, and the coalition came to end. The government Aftermath The government couldn't receive the vote of confidence on 13 October 1995. For the next 17 days, it served as a caretaker government. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50th Government Of Turkey
The 50th government of Turkey (25 June 1993 – 5 October 1995) was a coalition government formed by True Path Party (DYP) and Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP). Background The prime minister of the 49th government of Turkey was Süleyman Demirel of DYP. When Süleyman Demirel was elected as the president of Turkey, DYP elected Tansu Çiller as its new leader, and Tansu Çiller formed the 50th government of Turkey. She became the first (and so far, the only) female prime minister of Turkey. On the other hand, the deputy prime minister Erdal İnönü of SHP resigned from the leadership of his party and left his seat to Murat Karayalçın. In 1995, SHP and Republican People's Party (CHP) (which was previously issued from SHP) merged under the existing name of CHP, and Hikmet Çetin was elected as the temporary chairman of the party. Although the 50th government was basically the same government as the 49th, the change in leaders caused many later changes in the ministers, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 is Turkey's first and only female prime minister to date. 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 was elected leader of the True Path Party and succeeded Demirel as Prime Minister. Her premiership preceded over the intensifying armed conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and the PKK, resulting in Çiller's enacting numerous reforms to national defense and implementing the Castle Plan. With a better equipped military, Çiller's government was able to persuade the United States and the European Union to register the PK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
