Ali Tanrıyar

Ali Tanrıyar (born March 14, 1914 in Eleftheroupoli , Kingdom of Greece , † May 25, 2017 in Istanbul , Turkey ) was a Turkish medic , Interior Minister of Turkey and President of Galatasaray Istanbul .

life and career

Ali Tanrıyar was on March 14, 1914 in belonging to the then Kingdom of Greece Eleftheroupoli village, which was still the name Pravi or Turkish Pravişte born wore. In 1923 he emigrated with his family to the newly founded state of Turkey, where the family settled in Kırkağaç in the Manisa province . After primary school education in Kırkağaç and his further academic career at Galatasaray High School , he came to Istanbul University . While still at school, Tanrıyar joined sports club Galatasaray Istanbul in 1932 ; four years later he graduated from Galatasaray High School. During his school years was he in several B and over time also A-teams of the club was used, and he was especially successful as a boxer and athlete and at this time because of his athleticism name Spor Ali ( dt. About sports Ali ) received. After graduating from Istanbul University Medical Faculty, Tanrıyar made his specialist in internal medicine in Taksim İlkyardım Hastanesi . He subsequently rose to become chief physician and clinical director.

In 1983 he founded the Anavatan Partisi , the Turkish motherland party, together with 28 other people , and was elected twice as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey , of which he was a member from 1983 to 1991. During the reign of Turgut Özal , whose brother-in-law he was, Ali Tanrıyar appeared as Turkish Interior Minister from December 13, 1983 to October 26, 1984 for a period of a little over ten months . He replaced Selahattin Çetiner , born in 1922 , who had held this position since September 21, 1980. As Minister of the Interior, he was subsequently replaced by the later Turkish Prime Minister Yıldırım Akbulut .

In 1986 he was elected president of the Istanbul sports club Galatasaray and held this office from March 15, 1986 to March 17, 1990. Before that, Ali Uras, a former basketball player and 1952 Olympian, was active as the president of the successful sports club. He was then replaced by Alp Yalman , who was president for another six years. Various titles in the various sports departments of the club fall during his term of office. Among other things, a TSYD Kupası , two championships , two Supercups or the entry into the semi-finals of the European Cup of National Champions in 1988/89 , the football team's greatest international success to date, with the football department of Galatasaray Istanbul. Furthermore, he won two championships each with the men's and women's basketball team of the club, was three-time Turkish volleyball champion, four-time Turkish swimming champion, four-time Turkish athletics champion and three-time Turkish rowing champion. Before his time as president, he not only worked as an athlete in the club, but also worked as one of the club's leading doctors for a period of 41 years from 1942 to 1983.

Ali Tanrıyar, who was married with one child, died on May 25, 2017 at the age of 103 in his hometown of Istanbul. Until his death he held various honorary positions around the sports club and the Galatasaray grammar school.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Galatasaray'a adanmış bir asır: Ali Tanrıyar. In: NTV . Doğuş Holding , May 25, 2017, accessed May 27, 2017 (Turkish).