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Ahmet Hüsamettin Cindoruk (born 8 June 1933) is a Turkish politician and the 17th Speaker of the
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between 1991 and 1995. He was also the
acting president of Turkey The acting president of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye cumhurbaşkanı vekili) is a temporary post provided by the Constitution of Turkey. The acting president is a person who fulfills the duties and powers of the president of Turkey when cases of incapa ...
in 1993 and the leader of two political parties, notably of the
True Path Party The True Path Party ( tr, Doğru Yol Partisi, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously ...
.


Early life and education

He was born in 1933 in
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to Turkish Cretan parents. He did all his studies in
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, graduated from the prestigious TED Ankara College and attended the
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, earning a degree in 1955 from the
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. Following his graduation, he started exercising the lawyer's profession.


Professional career

He rose to national attention at a relatively young age when, after the
1960 Turkish coup d'état The 1960 Turkish coup d'état ( tr, 27 Mayıs Darbesi) was the first Turkish coup d'état, coup d'état in the Turkey, Republic of Turkey. It took place on May 27, 1960. The coup was staged by a group of 38 young Turkish Armed Forces, Turkish m ...
, he became part of the defence team for the imprisoned, and later executed ex-Prime Minister
Adnan Menderes Adnan Menderes (; 1899 – 17 September 1961) was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960. He was one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey. He ...
and other
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notables. Despite the final verdict in the case, the one-year-long desperate efforts by the defence team gained widespread respect across Turkey.


Political career

After the restoration of the civilian rule, he joined the Justice Party and two military coups later, after the 1980 military coup in Turkey, he became in 1985 the Secretary General of the True Path Party, a continuation of the Justice Party in the forced absence from politics of its leader
Süleyman Demirel Süleyman Sami Demirel (; 1 November 1924 – 17 June 2015) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the List of Presidents of Turkey, 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously served as the ...
. He handed over the party leadership to Demirel after his return to politics and with the Democratic Party's election victory in 1991, became the 17th Speaker of the Parliament between 1991 and 1995. As such he had a strong impact when the Parliament voted to lift the immunity of the several pro-Kurdish parliamentarians of the
People's Labor Party The People's Labour Party ( tr, Halkın Emek Partisi, HEP), sometimes translated as the People's Work Party, was a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey. It was founded on 7 June 1990 by seven members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly expell ...
(HEP). He defended the MPs freedom of speech and was offended by the wording of the prosecutor who argued militants of the out-lawed Kurdistan Workers' Party had taken refuge in the parliaments building. Cindoruk therefor refused to send the petition to lift the immunity to the parliaments Justice and Constitutional Commission and only his deputy sent it on in May 1992. In 1994, the immunity of seven MPs instead of the twenty-two the prosecutor demanded, were lifted. After Süleyman Demirel's election to the Presidency of the Republic vacated by
Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (; 13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Mothe ...
's death in 1993, he could have become the Prime Minister if he had not opted for a time to remain in his seat, thus opening the way for
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 P ...
. When he eventually pushed his candidacy forward, Tansu Çiller had gained sufficient momentum within the party. He resigned from the Speaker's position in early 1995 and launched his own political movement around Party for a Democratic Turkey (DTP)Not to be confused with the Democratic Society Party bearing the same initials. But the party did not register successful results in the general elections of 1996. Nevertheless, Cindoruk and his party took part in the government formed by
Mesut Yılmaz Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz () (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) was a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party ( tr, Anavatan Partisi, ANAP) from 1991 to 2002, and served three times as Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two p ...
during that electoral term and after bad results also in the elections of 1999, he quit the chairmanship of the party and left active politics. After years at 2009 he became the leader of Democrat Party and after several months he united Democratic Party and Motherland Party.


Personal life

Hüsamettin Cindoruk is married and has three children.


Footnotes


References

* Biyografi.net
''Biography of Hüsamettin Cindoruk''
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