Husamettin Cindoruk

Husamettin Cindoruk

Hüsamettin Cindoruk (* 1933 in İzmir ) is a Turkish politician and currently party leader of the Democrat Parti .

Cindoruk was born in 1933 in İzmir, the son of Vasfi Bey and Ganimet Hanım. He graduated from Çankaya elementary school in Ankara and the Ataturk grammar school. In 1954, Cindoruk graduated from the Faculty of Law at Ankara University . In 1955 he started working as a lawyer.

His political career began when he joined the youth organization Democrat Parti of Adnan Menderes . In 1958 he left the party to act as a founding member of the Hürriyet Partisi . After the National Unity Committee had put in a coup on May 27, 1960 and the members of the government were indicted in the Yassıada trials , Cindoruk represented a total of 18 former members of the Democratic Party as a lawyer. Among them was the former President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Refik Koraltan .

After political parties were allowed by the military again, Cindoruk participated in the Adalet Partisi , the Democracy Parti , the Büyük Türkiye Partisi and the Doğru Yol Partisi as a provincial party executive, founding member and in the central party administration committee. At the party congress of the Doğru Yol Partisi on May 14, 1985 Cindoruk was elected party chairman. After Suleyman Demirel's political ban on activity was over, he left his post to him. Cindoruk was President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between November 16, 1991 and November 1, 1995. In this capacity, Cindoruk represented the President of Turkey from April 17, 1993 to May 16, 1993, when President Turgut Özal died.

After the February 28 incidents in 1997 ( 28 Şubat süreci ), he left the Doğru Yol Partisi to found the Democrat Türkiye Partisi (DTP). The DTP participated in a coalition government under the leadership of Mesut Yılmaz , but Cindoruk did not participate. After the DTP failed to reach the 10 percent hurdle in the 1999 parliamentary elections with just 0.58 percent of the vote, Cindoruk resigned from his position as party chairman. On May 16, 2009, Cindoruk was elected party leader in the third round with 559 votes at the 5th party congress of the Demokrat Parti.

Cindoruk is married and has three children.

predecessor	Office	successor
İsmet Kaya Erdem	President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey November 16, 1991–1. October 1995	İsmet Sezgin