Hasan Esat Işık

Hasan Esat Işık (* 1916 in Istanbul ; † July 2, 1989 in Ankara ) was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He was his country's defense minister and foreign minister.

Life

Işık was born in 1916 as the son of the high Ottoman official Esat Pasha . He attended Galatasaray High School and then studied law at Ankara Üniversitesi . In 1940 he became a councilor in the Foreign Ministry. From 1945 he worked in the consulate general in Paris, from 1951 in the embassy in Bucharest and from 1952 in changing positions in the foreign ministry and at embassies in Europe. From 1962 he was ambassador to Brussels (1962–1964) and Moscow (1964/65). In 1965 Hasan Esat Işık was foreign minister of Turkey under Prime Minister Suat Hayri Ürgüplü for a few months and then returned to Moscow as ambassador. In 1968 he became Turkey's ambassador in Paris.

In 1973 he was elected member of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) for Bursa in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey . Işık was the country's defense minister several times in the following years. He was first appointed Minister of Defense on January 26, 1974 under Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit and was in office until November 17, 1974. In June and July 1977 he was again briefly in a minority government of the CHP under Ecevit in office.

After the failure of Suleyman Demirel's government at the end of 1977, the President commissioned Ecevit to form a new government. With the CGP and the DP, Ecevit formed a new government. Işık became Turkey's Minister of Defense on January 5, 1978, and was in office until January 16 of the following year. With the military coup in Turkey in 1980 , Hasan Esat Işık withdrew from politics. In the following years he wrote for Turkish daily newspapers on foreign policy issues.

Hasan Esat Işık died in Ankara in 1989.

Web links

• Entry "Isik, Hasan" in Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv, URL: http://www.munzinger.de/document/00000010932

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hasan Esat Işık , Biyografya, accessed on May 18, 2018 (Turkish)
2. ↑ Sayın Hasan Esat Işık'ın Özgeçmişi ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, accessed May 16, 2018