Haşim Kılıç (; born 13 March 1950, in Çiçekdağı, Kırşehir) is a Turkish former high-ranking judge, who served as President of the

Constitutional Court of Turkey The Constitutional Court of Turkey ( Turkish: ''Anayasa Mahkemesi'', sometimes abbreviated as ''AYM'') is the highest legal body for constitutional review in Turkey. It "examines the constitutionality, in respect of both form and substance, of law ...

from 22 October 2007 until 10 February 2015.

Biography

Kılıç was born in Hacı Hasanlı village of Çiçekdağı district of the Kırşehir Province in

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. In 1968, he attended

Eskişehir Eskişehir ( , ; from 'old' and 'city') is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 821 315 (Odunpazari + Tebebasi), with a metropolitan population of 921 630. The city is l ...

Academy of Economics and Commerce and graduated in 1972. Between 1974 and 1985, he served as a financial auditor at the Court of Auditors of

, which is a high judicial body according to the

Constitution of Turkey The Constitution of Turkey, formally known as the Constitution of the Republic of Türkiye (), and informally as the Constitution of 1982 (), is Turkey's fundamental law. It establishes the organization of the government, and sets out the pr ...

. He was elected as a member of the Board of the Court of Auditors of Turkey, a position he held five years long. On 7 December 1990, he was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court by Turkish President

Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, bureaucrat, engineer and statesman who served as the eighth president of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th prime minister of Turkey from 1983 ...

. On 7 December 1999 and 7 December 2003, he was elected twice as the deputy president of the court. On 10 February 2015 he announced his retirement, a month ahead of schedule, after a series of public confrontations between himself and top government officials. He was succeeded by Zühtü Arslan. He is married to Gönül Kılıç. The couple has four children.Who is who
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References

External links

His page on the Constitutional Court's Web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kilic, Hasim 1950 births Living people People from Çiçekdağı Turkish civil servants Turkish economists Turkish judges Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Turkey