Ekrem Alican

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Ekrem Alican (* 1916 in Adapazarı ; † June 18, 2000 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish politician . In 1960 Alican was finance minister of a military government and 1962/63 Deputy Prime Minister of a coalition government under İsmet İnönü .

Life

Alican was born in 1916 as the third son of Yusuf Efendi and his wife Emine Hanım. After attending school in Adapazarı, Alican enrolled at the Şişli Terakki School in Istanbul's Nişantaşı district in 1930 . In 1934 Ekrem Alican graduated from school and from then on attended the Mekteb-i Mülkiye in Istanbul, where he studied finance. In 1936 the university moved to Ankara and became the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara Üniversitesi . Alican graduated in 1937 and went to the London School of Economics on a grant from the Turkish Ministry of Finance . Due to the outbreak of World War II, he had to return to Turkey a year and a half later.

Treasury officer

Ekrem Alican started working in the Treasury Department of the Treasury. In 1940/41 he did his military service in the artillery near Çanakkale . After the Second World War he was promoted to finance inspector. In 1946 he was briefly drafted again for military service. After his second military service, Alican resigned his position in the Treasury and went back home, where he and relatives founded a trading company for agricultural products. But the company didn't last long.

On May 19, 1947, Alican married the young Naciye Guler from his home village. The couple had two daughters and a son.

Political career

At the age of 34, Ekrem Alican became a member of the Democrat Parti (DP) and was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Kocaeli Province in the 1950 parliamentary election. The family moved to Ankara.

Already in 1952 there were tensions in the party, in which Alican was also involved. Nevertheless, he was able to defend his seat in the National Assembly in the elections in 1954 . After the pogrom in Istanbul on the night of September 6th to 7th, 1955, leading party members criticized Adnan Menderes' DP government and called for more freedom of the press. The party's arbitration tribunal then expelled nine members from the party. 10 other leading members also left the party. The 19 politicians decided to found the Hürriyet Partisi (HP) on December 20, 1955 . One of the founding members was Ekrem Alican, who became chairman of the party after Ekrem Hayri Üstündağ and Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu .

The party's success, however, was low. In the parliamentary elections in 1957 , the HP could only win four seats. Alican was not elected. At a party congress on November 24, 1958, the party dissolved. While most of the party members switched to the opposition Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi , Alican remained non-party.

After the military coup on May 27, 1960 , Alican was appointed Minister of Finance by the junta on May 30. Alican left the cabinet on December 26th after discussions with the military over the government's fiscal policy.

Alican founded the Yeni Türkiye Partisi (YTP) on February 13, 1961 and tried to attract former voters of the banned DP. Alican became chairman of the new party. In the 1961 parliamentary election, however, the YTP was only able to win 13.73% of the vote and 65 of the 450 seats. In the Senate elections, the party was able to provide 27 of the 150 senators in the Turkish Senate . Alican himself was elected to the National Assembly for Sakarya Province .

Alican was on June 25, 1962 in the 27th government in the cabinet of CHP boss İsmet İnönü Deputy Prime Minister and was in office until December 25, 1963. In the 1965 election , Alican was re-elected to parliament. However, the YTP could only have 19 MPs. On October 17, 1966, Alican resigned as chairman of his party and retired from politics in 1969.

Last years

Between 1970 and 1980 Ekrem Alican was chairman of the supervisory board of Yapı ve Kredi Bankası , which is one of the most important banks in the country.

Alican died on June 18, 2000 at his home in Yeniköy , Istanbul. After the funeral prayer in the Teşvikiye Mosque , he was buried in the family cemetery in a village near Adapazarı.

literature

  • Dağcı Taşpınar, Gül Tuba: Ekrem Alican'ın Siyasi Hayatı . İstanbul Üniversitesi-Ataturk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü, Belgeler, 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Soruda Ekrem Alican ve Adapazarı , Medyabar, July 5, 2012 (Turkish)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Ekrem Alican toprağa veriliyor , NTV - MSNBC , June 19, 2000 (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Ekrem Alican , Biyografya, accessed May 3, 2018 (Turkish)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ekrem Alican toprağa verildi ( Memento from July 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Akşam, June 20, 2000
  5. ↑ a b Ekrem Alican defnedildi , Türkiye Gazetesi, June 20, 2000
  6. ↑ 1961 Yılı Genel Seçim Sonuçları ( Memento of April 13, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), Belge Net
personal data
SURNAME Alican, Ekrem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Adapazarı
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2000
Place of death Istanbul