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2007 In Turkey
Events in the year 2007 in Turkey. Incumbents *Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President of Turkey, President, 2000–2007 *Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey, President, 2007–2014 *Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey, Prime Minister, 2003–2014 Deaths January * January 15 - Lale Oraloglu, actress and screenwriter (b. 1924) * January 19 - Hrant Dink, intellectual, journalist and columnist (b. 1954) * January 24 - İsmail Cem, politician, intellectual and journalist (b. 1940) February * February 20 - Zahrad, poet (b. 1924) March * March 3 - Türkan Rado, professor of law (b. 1915) * March 6 - Naci Özkaya, footballer (b. 1922) April * April 18 - Ali Dinçer, engineer and politician (b. 1945) * April 26 - Ümit Haluk Bayülken, diplomat, ambassador and politician (b. 1921) May * May 6 - Nükhet Ruacan, singer (b. 1951) * May 26 - Hasan Eren, Turkologist and Hungarologist (b. 1919) June * June 23 - Erdal Saygın, academician (b. 1931) * June 28 - Zehra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Ahmet Necdet Sezer (; born 13 September 1941) is a Turkish statesman and judge who served as the tenth president of Turkey from 2000 to 2007. Previously, he was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from January 1998 to May 2000. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elected Sezer as president in 2000 after Süleyman Demirel's seven-year term expired. He was succeeded by Abdullah Gül in 2007. Following his legal career, Sezer became a candidate for the presidency with the joint support of many political parties in Parliament. Following the 2000 presidential election, he took an ardent secularist approach on issues such as the headscarf, holding the view that secularism in Turkey was under threat. A quarrel between Sezer and Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit in 2001 led to a financial meltdown, attributed to the weakness of the coalition government as well as to the large debt owed to the International Monetary Fund. The landslide victory of the conservative Islamist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
