Mustafa Cihad Baban (''Cihad'' also spelled ''Cihat''; 26 September 1911 – 28 September 1984) was a Turkish journalist, author, and a parliamentary deputy in the 1950s and 1960s.

Background

Baban was born in

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, where he attended

Galatasaray High School Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...

, and graduated from

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in 1934.

Career

As a journalist, Baban contributed to newspapers including ''

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, Yeni Sabah,

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'', and ''

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'', and he was one of the founders of the

Turkish Journalists' Association The Turkish Journalists' Association ( tr, Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti, TGC) is an association for journalists in Turkey. It was founded on 10 June 1946, shortly after the abolition of the Turkish Press Union (Türk Basın Birliği), membership o ...

in 1946. He also wrote a variety of books.haber7.com, 21 September 2011
TGC'nin kurucusu Cihat Baban anılıyor
/ref> Baban was elected in the 1946 general election for the

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, representing Istanbul. He was re-elected in the 1950 general election and 1954 general election, representing Izmir Province until the 1957 elections, in which he was not elected. He was a member of the constituent assembly which wrote the 1961

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, and was Minister of Tourism and Promotion (January to August 1961) in the 1960-1 post-coup government of

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. In the October 1961 general election he was elected again for the

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representing Istanbul, and in the 1965 general election representing Çanakkale. He later served as Minister of Culture in the 1980-3 post-coup government of

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. He died in

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Books

* ''Hitler ve Nasyonel Sosyalizm'' (1933), * ''Yüzyılın Büyük Kavgası Çin-Rus Anlaşmazlığı'' (1968), * ''Adanauer'' (1968), * ''Hoşi-Minh'' (1968), * ''Politika Galerisi'' (1970)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baban, Cihad 1911 births Galatasaray High School alumni Istanbul University alumni Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni Turkish journalists Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1961) politicians 20th-century Turkish politicians Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians Deputies of Istanbul Deputies of Izmir Deputies of Çanakkale Government ministers of Turkey 1984 deaths Members of the 44th government of Turkey Members of the 25th government of Turkey 20th-century journalists Cumhuriyet people