Hasan Esat Işık (1916 – July 2, 1989) was a

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and politician.

Biography

Hasan Esat Işık was born in Istanbul. His father was Mehmet Esat, a well known physician. After graduating from

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 Ankara University Faculty of Law, he held various positions in

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. He served as the Permanent Representative of the European Office in Geneva in 1952, and as Ambassador to Brussels, Moscow and Paris from 1962 to 1973. In 1965, he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 29th cabinet of Turkey (AP-CKMP-YTP-MP) of Prime Minister

Suat Hayri Ürgüplü Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (13 August 1903, Damascus, Ottoman Empire – 26 December 1981, Istanbul, Turkey) was a Turkish politician who served a brief term as Prime Minister of Turkey in 1965. He was also the last Prime Minister to be born ...

. He was chosen outside the Turkish Grand National Assembly. After leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for

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from CHP in the

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...

and

1977 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1977. Africa * 1977 Afars and Issas Constituent Assembly election * 1977 Algerian legislative election * 1977 Gambian general election * 1976–1977 Guinea-Bissau legislative election * 1977 Malagasy ...

. He was appointed as Minister of National Defense in the 37th, 40th and 42nd cabinet of Turkey. He left the ministry on January 16, 1979. Hasan Esat Işık was also the Deputy Secretary General of the CHP. He was among those who were banned from politics for 5 years by the new constitution following the 1980 coup d'etat. Işık died in Ankara on July 2, 1989.

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