Cavit Orhan Tütengil (1921 – December 7, 1979) was a Turkish sociologist, writer and

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, who was assassinated.

Biography

He was born in Sebil, a village of Tarsus, in

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province of what was then the

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. Following his primary education in his hometown, he attended Haydarpaşa High School in

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finishing in 1940. Tütengil studied philosophy at

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and graduated with a degree in 1944. Between 1944 and 1953, Tütengil served as a high school teacher for philosophy in

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and

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, and worked in village institutes as well. In 1953, Cavit Orhan Tütengil started his academic career by entering the Faculty of Economics at

as an assistant for

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. He conducted his Ph.D. research on "''Political and Economic Opinions of

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''", which won him the 1957 Science Award of the

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. He became an

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in 1960, and from 1970 on, he served as professor. In 1962, the Turkish Ministry of National Education sent him to

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for two years.

Contributions

He was one of the most original Turkish sociologists. His basic field of interest focused on development sociology. To his opinion, Turkey is a transition country and the compass should be Atatürk's thoughts. Having an excellent command of the Turkish language, he wrote his

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opinions in his column in the leftist newspaper ''

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'' for many years.

Death

Cavit Orhan Tütengil was murdered early in the morning on December 7, 1979, on the way to university at a city bus stop in Levent, Istanbul. The four assassins gunned him down in

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and left a notice signed "Anti Terör Birliği" (Anti Terror Unit) at the crime scene.Who is who
The assassination remained unsolved.

Bibliography

* ''Köy Enstitüsü Üzerine Düşünceler'' (Opinions on Village Institutes) (1948) * ''Ziya Gökalp Bibliyoğrafisi'' (Bibliography of Ziya Gökalp) (1949) * ''Prens Sebahattin'' (Prince Sebahattin) (1954) * ''Montesquieu'nün Siyasi ve İktisadi Fikirleri'' (Political and Economic Opinions of Montesquieu) (1954) * ''Ziya Gökalp Üzerine Notlar'' (Notes on Ziya Gökalp) (1956) * ''İçtimai ve İktisadi Bakımdan Türkiye'nin Kara Yolları'' (Highways of Turkey in Sociological and Economical Perspective) (1961) * ''Köyden Şehire Göç Meselesi'' (Migration From Rural to Urban) (1963) * ''Dr. Rıza Nur Üzerine'' (On Dr. Rıza Nur) (1965) * ''Diyarbakır Basını ve Bölge Gazeteciliğimiz'' (Press in Diyarbakır and Regional Journalism) (1966) * ''Azgelişmiş Ülkelerin Toplumsal Yapısı'' (Sociological Structure of Underdeveloped Countries) (1966) * ''Köy Sorunu ve Gençlik'' (Rural Problem and Youth) (1967) * ''Ağrı Dağındaki Horoz'' (The Cockerel on Mount Ararat) (1968) * ''İngiltere'de Türk Gazetecilği'' (Turkish Journalism in England) (1969) * ''Türkiye'de Köy Sorunu'' (Rural Problem in Turkey) (1969) * ''Sosyalbilimlerde Araştırma ve Metod'' (Research and Methodology in Sociology) (1969) * ''Azgelişmenin Sosyolojisi'' (Sociology of Underdevelopment) (1970) * ''100 Soruda Kırsal Türkiye'nin Yapısı'' (Structure of Rural Turkey in 100 Questions) (1975) * ''Temeldeki Çatlak'' (Crack in the Foundation) (1975) * ''Atatürkü Anlamak ve Tamamlamak'' (To Understand and Accomplish Atatürk) (1975) * ''Prens Lütfullah Dosyası'' (Prince Lütfullah File) (together with Vedat Günyol) (1977)

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