İzzettin Dogan

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İzzettin Doğan (* 1940 in Kırlangıç ​​in Malatya ) is a Turkish professor of international law and an Alevi functionary. Doğan is general secretary and chairman of the Cem Foundation , honorary chairman of Alevi Vakıfları Federasyonu and founder of Cem Radyo , Cem TV and Habercem .

The magazine Tempo of the Doğan media group ranked Doğan among the 50 most influential people in Turkey in 2008.

Life and origin

His father was the Dede Hüseyin Dogan. His mother's first name is Elif.

Doğan attended the Malatya Gazi Primary School, and received his secondary and high school education at the Galatasaray High School in Istanbul . After studying at the Faculty of Law at the University of Istanbul , he became a research assistant at the Chair of International Law . He received a fellowship from the United Nations and worked for six months at the UN in Geneva . He wrote his doctoral thesis in Nancy . He has taught at Istanbul University , Marmara University , Istanbul Technical University and numerous other universities, where he has lectured on international law and the economic law of the European Economic Community . After he also became a professor at Istanbul University, he became professor at the Galatasaray University Faculty of Law in 1994 and was chairman of the Galatasaray University Faculty of International Relations until 1999. He is a member of the board of trustees of Okan University and chairman of the Cem Foundation , which is the largest Alevi institution in Turkey alongside Alevi Bektaşi Federasyonu .

In April 2013, Doğan was appointed by the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to a commission called the “Council of Wise Men” , which was supposed to support the peaceful end of the conflict with the Kurdish PKK in civil society , but ultimately remained quite ineffective.

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