Cabinet Demirel IV

Demirel IV
39. Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Suleyman Demirel
choice	October 14, 1973
Appointed by	President Fahri Korutürk
education	March 15, 1975
The End	June 21, 1977
Duration	2 years and 98 days
predecessor	Irmak's cabinet
successor	Ecevit II cabinet
composition
Party (s)	AP , CGP , MSP , MHP
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	228/450

The Demirel IV cabinet was the 39th government of Turkey , which was headed by Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel from March 31, 1975 to June 21, 1977 .

The election to the National Assembly in Turkey in 1973 surprisingly won the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) by Bülent Ecevit . Although the former Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel was the favorite in the election, the CHP was able to gain a majority, while Demirel's Adalet Partisi (AP) lost massively. Cumhuriyetçi Güven Partisi (CGP), founded by Ecevit opponents and traditionalist Kemalists , had 5.3 percent. Necmettin Erbakan was able to re-establish the pro-Islamic party Millî Nizam Partisi , which was banned in 1971, under the name Millî Selamet Partisi (MSP) and immediately received 11.8 percent. The right-wing national Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP) won three seats and 3.38 percent of the vote.

President Fahri Korutürk then tasked Ecevit with forming a government. The CHP and the pro-Islamic MSP agreed on a government program in January 1974, which did not, however, contain any major reforms. The new government was unable to contain the sharp rise in unemployment. The coalition's short reign was marked by the increasing violence of left-wing revolutionary groups and right-wing extremist Gray Wolves commandos , which covered the country with terror, and the Cyprus crisis , during which Turkey occupied part of the island to protect the Cypriot Turks. In the weeks that followed, Ecevit and Erbakan had more disagreements. Ecevit terminated the coalition on September 18, 1974 in the hope of achieving a victory in early elections.

However, due to the increased popularity of Ecevit because of the Cyprus conflict, the other parties did not want to risk an election. In search of new majorities, the country was without an effective government for several months. On November 17, parliament elected the independent lawyer and Senator Sadi Irmak, a new prime minister with a minority cabinet made up of CGP and independents, who, however, became the plaything of the big parties and was thus barely able to act. Only a few months later, at the end of March 1975, Demirel announced an agreement between his Adalet Partisi, the Islamic MSP, the Kemalist-conservative CGP and the right-wing national MHP of Alparslan Türkeş . The government, often referred to as the “Cabinet of the Nationalist Front” ( Milliyetçi Cephe ), was able to rely on a slim majority of 228 of the 450 MPs.

The reign was marked, however, by massive infiltration of members of the parties into government agencies and the state administration. Islamists and right-wing extremists in particular benefited from this policy. Under the influence of the Islamic MSP, regulations were interpreted in the Islamic direction or corresponding decrees were created. Under the influence of the right-wing national MHP, the government hardly intervened against right-wing extremist street terror. In the midterm elections to the Senate on October 12, 1975, the CHP under Ecevit was able to achieve massive profits and received 43.9 percent of the vote. After the coalition of four could hardly agree on a constructive policy in 1976, the ruling Adalet Partisi decided to vote for early elections with the CHP and against its own partners. At the beginning of the hot election campaign phase, the May Day celebrations led to bloody arguments. Right-wing extremists shot into the crowd in Taksim Square . The police then violently broke up the event and a mass panic ensued, in which 34 people died and hundreds were injured.

In the elections in September 1977 , Bülent Ecevit won 41.4 percent of the votes with the CHP and thus missed the absolute majority by just 13 seats. A CHP minority cabinet followed.

minister

39. Government of the Republic of Turkey,
Cabinet Demirel IV - March 31, 1975 to June 21, 1977

title	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Suleyman Demirel	AP
Deputy Prime Minister
	Necmettin Erbakan	MSP
	Turhan Feyzioğlu	CGP
	Alparslan Turkis	MHP
Minister of State
	Seyfi Öztürk	AP
	Hasan Aksay	MSP
	Mustafa Kemal Erkovan Osman Albayrak	MHP AP	March 31, 1975 to April 30, 1977 April 30, 1977 to June 21, 1977
	Gıyasettin Karaca	AP
Minister of Justice	İsmail Müftüoğlu Zeyyat Baykara	MSP independent	March 31, 1975 to April 11, 1977 April 11, 1977 to June 21, 1977
Defense Minister	Ferit Melen	CGP
Interior minister	Oğuzhan Asiltürk Sabakattin Özbek	MSP independent	March 31, 1975 to April 11, 1977 April 11, 1977 to June 21, 1977
Foreign minister	İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil	AP
Finance minister	Yılmaz Ergenekon	AP
Minister of Education	Ali Naili Erdem	AP
Minister for Public Works	Fehim Adak	MSP
Minister of Commerce	Halil Basol	AP
Minister for Health and Welfare	Kemal Demir Vefa Tanır	CGP	March 31, 1975 to April 19, 1977 April 19, 1977 to June 21, 1977
Minister for Customs and Monopolies	Orhan Oztrak	CGP
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock	Korkut Özal
Transport Minister	Nahit Menteşe İbrahim Aysoy	AP independent	March 31, 1975 to April 11, 1977 April 11, 1977 to June 21, 1977
Minister of Labor	Ahmet Tevfik Paksu Şevket Kazan	MSP	March 31, 1975 to November 10, 1976 November 16, 1976 to June 21, 1977
Minister for Social Security	Ahmet Mahir Ablum	AP
Minister for Industry and Technology	Abdülkerim Doğru	MSP
Tourism Minister	Lütfi Tokoğlu Nahit Menteşe	AP	March 31, 1975 to April 11, 1977 April 11, 1977 to June 21, 1977
Minister of Culture	Rıfkı Danışman	AP
Minister of Construction and Settlement	Nurettin ok	AP
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Selahattin Kılıç	AP
Minister for Village Affairs	Vefa Poyraz	AP
Forest Minister	Turhan Kapanlı	AP
Minister for Youth and Sport	Ali Şevki Erek	AP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East ), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 39. Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on March 28, 2019