Adnan Kahveci

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Adnan Kahveci (born February 20, 1949 in Sürmene , † February 5, 1993 in Gerede ) was a Turkish politician. He was an advisor to the Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Özal . In 1983 he was one of the founders of the Anavatan Partisi (ANAP) and was later Minister of State and then Minister of Finance. He died in a car accident in 1993.

Life

Kahveci was born in Sürmene on the Black Sea in 1949. His family came from a mountain village which was once part of the independent empire of Trebizond and whose inhabitants had converted from Christianity to Islam . Adnan Kahveci was fluent in Greek . He was also considered a child prodigy , because he was in a nationwide test of the newspaper Milliyet among elementary school students in 1961, the entrance test to the Kabataş ( Kabataş Erkek Lisesi ) high school in Istanbul in 1966 and in another nationwide test of the daily newspaper Hürriyet among high school students took first place. He also took first place in the nationwide university entrance exams in 1966 and in the Istanbul Universitesi scholarship exam . He continued his electrical engineering studies at Purdue University in the United States and received his PhD from the University of Missouri . After returning to Turkey in 1976, he did his military service and then worked as a scientist at the Boğaziçi Üniversitesi .

Political career

In the late 1970s, Kahveci became a technical advisor in the Turkish Ministry of the Interior. Interior Minister Korkut Özal had met Kahveci on a trip to America as chairman of Türkiye Petrolleri and then brought him to the ministry after his appointment as minister in 1977. The Interior Minister also introduced Kahveci to his brother Turgut Özal , who was Deputy Prime Minister under Admiral Bülend Ulusu . When Özal broke with the military in 1982, which until then had continued to determine the guidelines of politics after the military coup in 1980 , Kahveci urged him to found the ANAP, but was unable to run himself due to the military's ban. From 1983 Kahveci was head of cabinet of the new Prime Minister Turgut Özal and, according to The Independent, became the "link between Özal and [...] local politicians, officials, the military, western journalists and foreign investors". Only after the parliamentary elections in 1987 was he able to move into the Turkish National Assembly as a member of parliament.

Adnan Kahveci sat for three legislative terms for the Istanbul province in parliament and was Minister of State from 1987 to 1989 responsible for the state broadcaster Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu (TRT). During his tenure, the media landscape was decisively changed because private broadcasters were now also permitted in addition to the TRT. As an advisor and minister, Kahveci played a crucial role in the economic reforms of the 1980s.

Kahveci also launched corruption investigations against a minister who had received severance pay for arranging an oil transport. Kahveci had recorded a conversation about it and had sent it to Özal. Both during his term in office and during the short period in the opposition after the 1991 elections, he was considered a straightforward loner who expressed his opinion regardless of the party line.

Under the heads of government Yıldırım Akbulut and Mesut Yılmaz , Kahveci was finance minister in 1990/91.

In the months before his death, Kahveci worked on solving the Kurdish question and wrote a report that called for a peaceful solution and demanded recognition of the Kurdish language. According to the autobiography of the entrepreneur Sakıp Sabancı , Özal commissioned Kahveci to work out ideas to reserve seats in parliament for minorities. Sabancı gave Özal the idea.

death

The Adnan-Kahveci-Machalle in Beylikdüzü , a machalla that was named in his honor

Kahveci died on February 5, 1993 in a car accident in which his wife Füsun and a daughter were also killed. The youngest son survived injured. The politician had entered a motorway wrongly and collided with another vehicle.

In 2012, the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office decided to investigate Özal's death in April 1993, including reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death of Kahveci and other leading politicians and journalists who campaigned for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. Special investigators from the presidential office had classified Özal's death as "suspicious". There have been speculations that the deaths of Özal, Kahveci and other personalities were part of an allegedly planned military coup in 1993. After residues of poisons were found at Özal after the exhumation, the public prosecutor charged ex-General Levent Ersöz with the murder after further investigations. The trial ended in an acquittal. The death of Kahveci has not been solved.

Honors

A primary school and a city district in Istanbul's Beylikdüzü district were named after Adnan Kahveci .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comerford. Defining Greek and Turk: Uncertainties in the search for European and Muslim identities . 2000. p. 251.
  2. ↑ a b c Adnan Kahveci , biyografi.info, accessed on April 25, 2018
  3. ^ Automated Visual Industrial Quality Control Systems . Dissertation from the University of Missouri , 1975
  4. ↑ Kimseye güvenmiyoruz , Hürriyet , November 15, 1998
  5. ↑ a b c d David Barchard: Obituary: Adnan Kahveci , The Independent , February 9, 1993
  6. ↑ 46th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed April 25, 2018
  7. ^ Nicole Pope, Hugh Pope: Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey . The Overlook Press, 2000, ISBN 1-58567-096-0 , p. 173
  8. ^ Çiğdem Balım-Harding: Turkey: Political, Social and Economic Challenges in the 1990s . Brill Publishers, 1995, ISBN 90-04-10283-3
  9. ↑ 47th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed April 25, 2018
  10. ↑ 48th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed April 25, 2018
  11. ^ Rıfat N. Bali: Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey During the Multi-Party Period , Lexington Books, 2012, p. 445 ( online at Google Books )
  12. ↑ Turkey deepens probe of suspected "deep state" deaths , Reuters , December 12, 2012
  13. ↑ Turgut Özal'ın Ölümü Davasında Levent Ersöz'ün Beraatine Onama ( memento from June 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Hukuk Haber, March 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kahveci, Adnan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Sürmene
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1993
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