Haşim Kılıç (; born 13 March 1950, in

Çiçekdağı, Kırşehir Çiçekdağı is a town and district of Kırşehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 21,059 of which 6,683 live in the town of Çiçekdağı. Notable natives * Muharrem Erta ...

) was a high-ranked judge and the President of the

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from 22 October 2007 until 10 February 2015. Kılıç was born in Hacı Hasanlı village of Çiçekdağı district of the

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. In 1968 he attended

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Academy of Economics and Commerce and graduated in 1972. Between 1974 and 1985, he served as a financial auditor at the Court of Auditors of Turkey, which is a high judicial body according to the

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. He was elected as a member of the Board of the Court of Auditors of Turkey, a position he held five years long. On 7 December 1990, he was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court by Turkish President

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. On 7 December 1999 and 7 December 2003, he was elected twice as the deputy president of the court. On February 10, 2015, he announced his retirement, a month ahead of schedule, after a series of public confrontations between himself and top government officials. He was succeeded by Zühtü Arslan. He is married to Gönül Kılıç. The couple has four children.Who is who
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References

External links

His page on the Constitutional Court's Web site
1950 births Living people People from Çiçekdağı Turkish civil servants Turkish economists Turkish judges Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Turkey {{turkey-law-bio-stub