Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (10 July 1939 – 21 October 1999) was a Turkish professor, politician, and commentator. He served in the Parliament of Turkey in 1977 and was minister of culture in 1978 and 1979.

Biography

Kışlalı completed his primary and secondary education in

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, and graduated from " Kabataş Erkek Lisesi" high school in

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in 1957. Kışlalı received a degree from the School of Political Sciences at

Ankara University Ankara University () is a public university, public research university in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the History of the Republic of Turkey, formation of the Turkish republ ...

, in 1963, where he was the assistant editor of

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''Yeni Gün''. He got his PhD on "''Çağdaş Türkiye'de Siyasal Güçler''" (''Political Powers in Contemporary Turkey'') from the

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, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science. He worked as a lecturer in

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from 1968 until 1972, then working as an assistant professor at

, and later an associate professor in 1977. Politically, he was a

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who adopted the views of

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and

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. In 1977 he was elected to the Turkish parliament,

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, as deputy of

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. Between the years 1978 and 1979, he was appointed to position of ministry of culture, by prime minister

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. During his term of ministry, he restarted the effort of printing classical works by the state press, making these available to masses at reasonable prices. After the

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of 12 September 1980, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı went back to the academia, and became a full professor in 1988. He continued to give lectures on political science in Department of Communication at Ankara University, after his retirement. Starting from 1991, he had a regular column in the leftist newspaper ''

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'' with the title "Haftaya Bakış" ("A View of the Week").

Assassination

On 21 October 1999, shortly after having faxed his article to ''Cumhuriyet'' at 9:40 h local time, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı left his home and headed for his car. As he got in the car, he noticed a package placed at the windshield wiper. He picked it up with his left arm, and at that moment an explosion occurred tearing off his left arm at elbow. His wristwatch penetrated into his head together with bomb shrapnel. After memorial services held at the

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, Faculty of Communications in

, Grand Theatre of

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, Ankara Office of ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper, and religious funeral service at

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, he was laid to rest at

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in Ankara.

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