Turhan Feyzioğlu

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Turhan Feyzioğlu
National Reliance Party)
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office
27 October 1957 – 12 September 1980
ConstituencySivas (1957)
Kayseri (1961, 1965, 1969, 1973, 1977)
Personal details
Born1922
Kayseri, Turkey
Died24 March 1988(1988-03-24) (aged 65–66)
Ankara, Turkey
Political partyRepublican People's Party (CHP)
Republican Reliance Party (CGP)
SpouseLeyla Cıngıllıoğlu
Children2 (1 adopted)
RelativesMetin Feyzioğlu (grandson)
EducationLaw
Alma materIstanbul University
OccupationPolitician, academician
Known forDean of Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University
Rector of Middle East Technical University

Turhan Feyzioğlu (1922 – 24 March 1988) was a Turkish academic and a politician.

Early life

He was born in

Democrat Party government and he had to resign. Although in 1960–1961 term he briefly returned to academics and served as the rector of Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, his main area of interest was politics.[1]

Politics in CHP

In 1957 he went into politics and became a member of

Cabinet Gürsel I
. In the elections held in 1961, he was elected as the MP from
state minister (French: ministre sans portefeuille) and in the second as deputy prime minister.[2] Turhan Feyzioğlu was one of the major figures of the party. But beginning by 1965, Bülent Ecevit the secretary general of the party who had the support of İsmet İnönü began to challenge his authority in the party. Turhan Feyzioğlu struggled against Ecevit’s slogan "left of center" (Turkish
: ortanın solu).

Politics in Reliance Party

On 12 May 1967 Turhan Feyzioğlu and his 47 followers in the parliamentary group broke away from CHP to form a new party named

Reliance Party.[3] Feyzioğlu became the chairman of the new party. On 29 January 1971, the party was renamed as National Reliance Party and on 4 May 1973, Republican Party, another party also issued from CHP, merged to Nationalistic Reliance Party.[3]
After merging, the party was renamed as Republican Reliance Party. Turhan Feyzioğlu continued as the chairman of Republican Reliance Party.

Politics in Republican Reliance Party

Republican Reliance Party continued up to 1980 and Turhan Feyzioğlu continued to be an MP from

Cabinet Ecevit III
)

Family life

Turhan Feyzioğlu married to Leyla Cıngıllıoğlu. Their daughter Saide (1950-1969) married Mehmet Buçukoğlu, but she died two hours after bearing a son, Metin, on 7 July 1969. Metin was adopted by his grandparents and took the surname Feyzioğlu. He became a professor of criminal law and was elected President of Turkish Union of Bar Associations in May 2013.[4][5]

Death

After 1980 he abandoned politics.[1] Turhan Feyzioğlu died at the age of 66 in Ankara on 24 March 1988.

Books

The following is the list of Feyzioğlu's books. Five of them are in Turkish and one in French.

  • Kanunların Anayasaya Uygunluğunun Kazai Murakabesi (1951)
  • Demokrasiye ve Diktatörlüğe Dair (1957)
  • Devlet Adamı Atatürk (1963)
  • Atatürk ve Milliyetçilik
  • Türk Millî Mücadelesinin ve Atatürkçülüğün Temel İlkelerinden Biri Olarak Millet Egemenliği.
  • Atatürk Yolu
  • Un Liberateur et un Modernisateur Genial Kemal Atatürk

References

  1. ^ a b Law news (in Turkish)
  2. ^ a b c Official page of Prime minister Archived 2 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b Türkiye'nin 75 Yılı, Tempo Yayınları, Istanbul, 1998
  4. ^ "Kılıçdaroğlu'na sözüm var: Hep doğruyu söyleyeceğim". Hürriyet Pazar (in Turkish). 30 October 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Barolar Birliği Başkanı Metin Feyzioğlu". Radikal (in Turkish). 26 May 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
Preceded by
Minister of National Education

5 January 1961 – 27 October 1961 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of State
20 November 1961 – 25 June 1962 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
25 June 1962 – 25 December 1963 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
31 March 1975 – 21 June 1977 		Succeeded by
Orhan Eyüboğlu
Turan Güneş
Preceded by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
5 January 1978 – 12 November 1979 		Succeeded by
Vacant
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