Hikmet Sami Türk (born 1935 in Of,

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) is a Turkish academic and politician. He was at the faculty of law of

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from 1967 until 1995. Elected to parliament from 1995 to 2002 for the Democratic Left Party, he was Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice. He joined the faculty of

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in 2005. On April 29, 2009 he survived an assassination attempt by Dev-Sol.

Biography

Türk graduated from the Kabataş Erkek Lisesi, and then from

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's Law Faculty in 1958.kimkimdir.gen.tr
Prof. Dr. Hikmet Sami Türk (1935 - .... )
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in 1964. Returning to Turkey he completed his military service and then joined the faculty of

in 1967, becoming a full professor in the law faculty in 1978, and teaching there until 1995. In the 1995 and 1999 elections he was elected to the

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for the Democratic Left Party (DSP). Under Prime Minister

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he was Minister of State for Human Rights in 1997 and Minister of Defence in 1999 (January to May), and then Minister of Justice under Prime Minister

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. He left parliament in 2002, as in the 2002 elections his party failed to reach the 10% threshold needed to enter parliament. However he continued in his party as the vice chairman of the party. Although still a member of DSP, on 1 March 2018 he resigned from this post. He joined the law faculty of

in 2005. In 2009 he survived an attempt to assassinate him at

, when a suicide-bomber's bomb failed to detonate.

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, 30 April 2009
Former justice minister escapes assassination attempt
Turk assumed the attack was in retaliation on his approval of the new high security prisons in Turkey in 2000.

References

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