Turhan Feyzioğlu

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Turhan Feyzioğlu

| image =

| alt =

| caption =

| birth_name =

| birth_date = 1922

| birth_place = Kayseri, Turkey

| death_date = {{death date and age|1988|3|24|1922|df=yes}}

| death_place = Ankara, Turkey

| nationality = Turkish

| other_names =

| spouse = Leyla Cıngıllıoğlu

| children = 2 (1 adopted)

| relatives = Metin Feyzioğlu (grandson)

| known_for = Dean of Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University
Rector of Middle East Technical University

| alma_mater = Galatasaray High School
Istanbul University
Ankara University

| education = Law

| occupation = Politician, academic

| party = Republican People's Party (CHP)
Republican Reliance Party (CGP)

| term_start1 = 31 March 1975

| term_end1 = 21 June 1977

| office1 = Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey

| primeminister1 = Süleyman Demirel

| 2blankname1 = Served with

| 2namedata1 = Necmettin Erbakan
Alparslan Türkeş

| predecessor1 = Zeyyat Baykara

| successor1 = Orhan Eyüboğlu

| term_start2 = 25 June 1962

| term_end2 = 25 December 1963

| 3blankname2 = Serving with

| 3namedata2 = Ekrem Alican
Hasan Dincer

| primeminister2 = İsmet İnönü

| predecessor2 = Ali Akif Eyidoğan

| successor2 = Kemal Satır

| office3 = Minister of State

| primeminister3 = İsmet İnönü

| term_start3 = 20 November 1961

| term_end3 = 25 June 1962

| office4 = Minister of National Education

| primeminister4 = Cemal Gürsel

| term_start4 = 5 January 1961

| term_end4 = 7 February 1961

| predecessor4 = Bedrettin Tuncel

| successor4 = Ahmet Tahtakılıç

| office5 = Leader of the Republican Reliance Party

| term_start5 = 4 May 1973

| term_end5 = 16 October 1981

| predecessor5 = Himself {{small|(as leader of the National Reliance Party)}}

| successor5 = Party abolished

| office6 = Leader of the National Reliance Party

| term_start6 = 29 January 1971

| term_end6 = 4 May 1973

| predecessor6 = Himself {{small|(as leader of the Reliance Party)}}

| successor6 = Himself {{small|(as leader of the Republican Reliance Party)}}

| office7 = Leader of the Reliance Party

| term_start7 = 12 May 1967

| term_end7 = 29 January 1971

| predecessor7 = Party established

| successor7 = Himself {{small|(as leader of the National Reliance Party)}}

| office8 = {{GNAT MP}}

| term_start8 = 27 October 1957

| term_end8 = 12 September 1980

| constituency8 = Sivas (1957)
Kayseri (1961, 1965, 1969, 1973, 1977)

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

Early life

He was born in Kayseri. After finishing the primary school in Kayseri, he attended Galatasaray High School and later studied at Istanbul University Law School. After post graduate studies at the University of Oxford, he returned to Turkey and became a faculty at Ankara University.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-14 |title=Turhan Feyzioğlu (1922, Kayseri-1988, İstanbul) |url=https://ataturkansiklopedisi.gov.tr/bilgi/turhan-feyzioglu-1922-kayseri-1988-istanbul/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=Atatürk Ansiklopedisi |language=tr}} In 1947, he obtained his Ph.D. from Ankara University with a thesis entitled "Judicial Supervision of the Conformity of Laws to the Constitution in Turkey and Other Countries." During this period, he also translated Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom.

During his tenure as an associate professor in the years 1953-1954, he was sent by the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University to France and England for research. During this period, he worked at the École Nationale d'Administration in France. In 1955, at the age of 33, he was promoted to the rank of professor and was elected as the dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University. He also began writing in the bulletin of his school. His articles however irritated the 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.[http://www.hukukihaber.net/turhan-feyzioglu-biyografi,19.html Law news {{in lang|tr}}]

Politics in CHP

In 1957 he went into politics and became a member of Republican People's Party (CHP). In the same year he was elected as the MP from Sivas. In 1960 (during his service in METU) he also served in the constituent assembly and was appointed as the minister of education in Cabinet Gürsel I.

In the elections held in 1961, he was elected as the MP from Kayseri, his home. He served in the two governments of İsmet İnönü In the first he served as state minister ({{langx|fr|ministre sans portefeuille}}) and in the second as deputy prime minister.[http://www.basbakanlik.gov.tr/Forms/pCabinetRoot.aspx Official page of Prime minister] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602200959/http://www.basbakanlik.gov.tr/Forms/pCabinetRoot.aspx |date=2 June 2013 }} 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 actively opposed the policy termed "left of center" ({{langx|tr|ortanın solu}}), advocated by Bülent Ecevit.

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.Türkiye'nin 75 Yılı, Tempo Yayınları, Istanbul, 1998 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. 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 Kayseri. Although his party was losing support, Feyzioğlu served two times as deputy prime minister in coalition governments; in 1975 in Süleyman Demirel's cabinet and in 1978 Bülent Ecevit’s cabinet.

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 Bars Association in May 2013.{{cite news |url=http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/printnews.aspx?DocID=19121755 |newspaper=Hürriyet Pazar |title=Kılıçdaroğlu'na sözüm var: Hep doğruyu söyleyeceğim |date=30 October 2011 |language=Turkish |accessdate=12 July 2013 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/barolar_birligi_baskani_metin_feyzioglu-1135030 |newspaper=Radikal |title=Barolar Birliği Başkanı Metin Feyzioğlu |date=26 May 2013 |language=Turkish |accessdate=12 July 2013 }}

Death

After 1980, he withdrew from political life. Turhan Feyzioğlu died at the age of 66 in Ankara on 24 March 1988.

Books

The following list includes the books authored by Feyzioğlu. Of these, five are written 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

{{Succession box|title=Minister of National Education|before=Fehmi Yavuz|after=Mehmet Hilmi İncesulu|years= 5 January 1961 – 27 October 1961}}

{{Succession box|title=Minister of State|before=Hayri Mumcuğlu|before2=Adnan Erzi|before3=Sitkı Ulay|before4=Ali Nasır Zeytinoğlu|after=Hıfzı Oğuz Bekata|after2=Şevket Raşit Hatiboğlu|after3=Ali Şakir Ağanoğlu|after4=Vefik Piriçcioğlu|years= 20 November 1961 – 25 June 1962}}

{{Succession box|title=Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey|before=Akif Eyidoğan|after=Kemal Satır|years= 25 June 1962 – 25 December 1963}}

{{Succession box|title=Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey|before=Zeyyat Baykara|after=Orhan Eyüboğlu|after2=Turan Güneş|years= 31 March 1975 – 21 June 1977}}

{{Succession box|title=Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey|before=Necmettin Erbakan|before2=Alparslan Türkeş|after= Vacant|years= 5 January 1978 – 12 November 1979}}

Category:1922 births

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Category:20th-century prime ministers of Turkey

Category:People from Kayseri

Category:Galatasaray High School alumni

Category:Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni

Category:Academic staff of Ankara University

Category:Deputy prime ministers of Turkey

Category:Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians

Category:Turkish non-fiction writers

Category:Ministers of national education of Turkey

Category:Rectors of Middle East Technical University