Ahmet Mithat Berberoğlu (8 April 1921 – 4 April 2002) was a

Turkish Cypriot Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( or ; ) are so called ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots are mainly Sunni Muslims. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers were given land onc ...

politician and the founder of the

Republican Turkish Party The Republican Turkish Party (, CTP; ) is a social-democratic political party in Northern Cyprus. The party was founded in 1970 by Ahmet Mithat Berberoğlu, a lawyer, in opposition to the leadership of Fazıl Küçük and Rauf Denktaş. On 30 ...

. He was born on May 8, 1921, in Limassol. He studied at Istanbul University Law School and studied law in

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. In the elections of the House of Representatives held on 31 July 1960, he was able to enter the 1st House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus as a member of Kyrenia. The Assembly of the Republic on 5 July 1970 elected to parliament again. About five months later, on December 27, 1970, he founded the

, becoming the party's first leader. On the 13th of February 1975, as the deputy came to an end, one year later

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became the party leader. He died on April 4, 2002. He was married and had a child.Sami Özuslu, Ankaraya Kafa Tutan Adam.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berberoglu, Ahmet Mithat 1921 births Leaders of political parties in Northern Cyprus 20th-century Cypriot lawyers Turkish Cypriot political writers People from Limassol Cypriot people of the Cyprus Emergency 2002 deaths Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni Turkish Cypriot expatriates in Turkey Turkish Cypriot expatriates in the United Kingdom