Altan Öymen

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Altan Öymen
İstanbul (1995)
In office
5 June 1977 – 12 September 1980
ConstituencyAnkara (1977)
Personal details
Born (1932-06-20) 20 June 1932 (age 91)
Trabzon, Turkey
Political partyRepublican People's Party
OccupationJournalist

Mehmet Altan Öymen (born 20 June 1932) is a Turkish journalist, author and former politician.

Biography

Öymen was born on 20 June 1932.

Anka news agency in 1972. In the 1960s, Altan Öymen served as the press attaché in Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany
.

He entered politics in 1961 as member of the parliament that was formed after the

Turkish Grand National Assembly, and became minister for tourism and public relations in the cabinet of Bülent Ecevit's second government
, which lasted only one month in the summer 1977. He was reelected in 1995 as the deputy of Istanbul from the CHP.

Following the resignation of Deniz Baykal from the presidency of CHP, he was elected leader on 23 May 1999. He acted 15 months long at this post, before Deniz Baykal was reelected at the next extraordinary party congress in 2000.

Öymen resumed his journalist career, which he had interrupted during his party leadership, and wrote on political issues in his column in the newspaper Radikal.[2]

In the 1980s and 1990s, he was awarded several times for his journalism.[3]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Basından" (PDF). Alev Dergisi (in Turkish). February 1989. p. 2. Atatürk High School Alumni magazine
  2. ^ Newspaper Radikal Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
  3. ^ Newspaper Milliyet (in Turkish). Archived 2002-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ NewPage[permanent dead link] (in Turkish)
  5. ^ NewPage Archived 15 September 2005 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
  6. ^ NewPage Archived 22 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)

References

Party political offices
Preceded by Leader of the Republican's People Party (CHP)
1999–2000
Succeeded by