Erol Tuncer (born 1938) is a Turkish engineer, bureaucrat and politician who was a member of the Republican People's Party. He briefly served as the minister of construction and settlement in 1977. He was a member of the Turkish Parliament for two terms between 1973 and 1980.

Biography

Tuncer was born in

Bayburt Bayburt () is a city in northeast Turkey lying on the Çoruh River and is the provincial capital of Bayburt Province. According to the 2021 census the population is determined as around 82,274. Bayburt was once an important center on the ancient ...

in 1938. He is a graduate of

Istanbul Technical University Istanbul Technical University ( tr, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, commonly referred to as ITU or The Technical University) is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical universit ...

where he received a degree in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...

. He worked at the public institutions as an engineer and bureaucrat until 1973. He was appointed general director of the natural disasters agency. He was elected as a deputy of Gümüşhane for the Republican People's Party in 1973. He was again elected to the Parliament from Gümüşhane in the 1977 election and served there until the 1980 military coup. Tuncer was appointed minister of construction and settlement to the 40th government led by Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit on 21 June 1977. The cabinet was dissolved on 21 July 1977. Following the military coup Tuncer actively involved in the establishment of new social democrat parties and in the reopening of the Republican People's Party which had been banned by the military council. He unsuccessfully ran for chairmanship of the party when it was reestablished on 9 September 1992. Next year Tuncer and his colleagues founded an Ankara-based

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entitled TESAV (Toplumsal Ekonomik Siyasal Araştırmalar Vakfı; Social Economic Political Research Foundation) of which he has been the president since then. In 2003 Tuncer again ran for the chairmanship of the Republican People's party against

Deniz Baykal Deniz Baykal (born 20 July 1938) is a Turkish politician at the Republican People's Party (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, abbreviated CHP) who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1996. Having served in ...

. Tuncer has published many books on politics in Turkey and the Republican People's Party.

References

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