İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil (1 January 1908,

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– 30 December 1993,

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) was a Turkish

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and

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who served as

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in 1980, from the Justice Party (). He also served as

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three times in the 1960s and 1970s.

Background and personal life

Çağlayangil was born in

in 1908 as the son of a man named M. Sabri. He graduated from Saint-Joseph High School. Then he entered the School of Law at

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and graduated in 1932. He was married to Firuzende Çağlayangil starting in 1953 and had a daughter named Fatma Itir Çağlayangil.

Career

After completing his studies he became a civil servant and was in charge of the arrangements for the trial and the hanging of Seyit Riza and several Kurdish leaders of the

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. In 1948 he became governor of the

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in 1954 until he went to Bursa. Çağlayangil was Governor of Bursa Province from 1954 to 1960. He served as Minister of Labour and Social Security in the

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, a caretaker government prior to the 1965 general election. After the election he served as the

from 1965 to 1971, until the 1971 coup. He was

again in 1975–1977, and 1977–1978. In March 1977, in his role as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he visited the

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where an agreement was reached between Turkey and the country for long-term economic, scientific, and technical cooperation. Çağlayangil was Chairman of the Senate from November 7, 1979 to September 12, 1980 (the 1980 coup). In this capacity he was Acting

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after Fahri Korutürk's term expired on 6 April 1980. He was a member of the Justice Party ().

References

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