Hayrettin Erkmen

Hayrettin Erkmen (born April 19, 1915 in Giresun , † May 18, 1999 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish politician. In the 1950s he was a member of parliament, 1957/1958 Minister of Labor, from 1958 to 1960 Minister of Economics and 1959/1960 Minister for Public Works and Settlements. He became a senator in the elections to the Turkish Senate in 1975. 1979/80 he was foreign minister of his country.

Life

Erkmen attended high school in Trabzon and studied at the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University . He then received his doctorate in economics in Geneva in 1948 and, on his return, became an assistant at the faculty of economics at Istanbul University .

In 1950 he was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as a member of the Giresun Province and was a member of the DP until the military coup in Turkey in 1960 . He was also Minister of Labor from November 25, 1957 to September 4, 1958, Minister of Economic Affairs from September 4, 1958 to May 27, 1960, and Minister of Public Works and Settlements from December 11, 1959 to May 27, 1960. After the military coup on May 27, 1960, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in the Yassıada trials , but received an amnesty in 1964. He became a senator in the elections to the Turkish Senate in 1975.

In 1979, Erkmen became Foreign Minister of the minority government of the Adalet Partisi in the Demirel VI cabinet , which was tolerated by the Millî Selamet Partisi (MSP) of Necmettin Erbakan . Due to an interpellation in the Turkish National Assembly on September 5, 1980, Erkmen was forced to resign with the votes of the MSP shortly before the military coup on September 11, 1980 . During the meeting of the Association Council of the European Economic Community (EEC) on February 5, 1980, Erkmen requested that Turkey's application for full membership of the EEC be accelerated and repeated in June 1980. In the press conference that followed, the Foreign Minister announced that Turkey would apply for full membership in the autumn. This move was not discussed with either the Cabinet or Parliament. Following that, Erbakan submitted an MSP motion calling for the minister to be replaced. After deliberations in August and September, Erkmen was overthrown with the votes of the opposition and the MSP. Prime Minister Demirel had to initiate the resignation because he was dependent on the MSP in his minority cabinet.

In 1992, Erkman founded the liberal-conservative Democrat Parti with like-minded people and became chairman of the party. In 1994 he was replaced by Aydın Menderes .

Erkmen died in Istanbul in 1999. He was buried in the Aşiyan Cemetery in Istanbul.

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ http://rulers.org/indexe.html
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hayrettin Erkmen , Biyografya, accessed on May 14, 2018 (Turkish / English)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Hayrettin Erkmen , Gurbetçi Giresun Gazetesi, January 21, 2010 (Turkish)
5. ↑ Gülistan Gürbey: foreign policy in defective democracies: Social requirements and decision-making processes in Turkey 1983-1993 (=  Peace Research Institute Frankfurt: Studies of the Hesse Foundation for Peace and Conflict Studies . Band 46 ). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37472-2 , p. 152 .