Cabinet Demirel VI

Cabinet Demirel VI
43rd Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Suleyman Demirel
choice	1977
Appointed by	President Fahri Korutürk
education	November 12, 1979
The End	September 11, 1980
Duration	0 years and 304 days
predecessor	Cabinet Ecevit III
successor	Ulusu cabinet
composition
Party (s)	Minority government of the AP
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	189/450

The Demirel VI cabinet was the 43rd government of Turkey , which was headed by Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel from December 12, 1979 to September 11, 1980 .

The parliamentary election of June 5, 1977 won the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) of Bülent Ecevit with 41.38% of the vote, but clearly missed the absolute majority. Süleyman Demirel's Adalet Partisi (AP) was second behind with 36.88%. Ecevit was able to form a government in 1978 with the help of a few independent MPs. But in mid-term elections, the CHP suffered a significant defeat in October 1979 and Ecevit resigned. Demirel then tried to form a government and was able to obtain a toleration from the Millî Selamet Partisi of Necmettin Erbakan . On November 25, 1979, Demirel won the vote of confidence.

In the meantime the country had slipped into crisis. There was a trade deficit of around $ 5 billion. Turkey had high foreign debts of US $ 20.9 billion, the inflation rate rose to over 90%, and the unemployment rate was around 15 percent. In politics, the stalemate between Ecevit and Demirel brought a standstill. Conditions similar to civil war had developed between left and right groups and organizations, which killed several thousand people.

Demirel ignored a memorandum from the General Staff of December 27, 1979 to the President in the hope of winning new elections. However, his parliamentary group alone could not bring about the necessary dissolution of parliament and thus had to remain practically unable to act. After the end of President Fahri Korutürk's term of office , it was not possible to agree on a candidate who could achieve the necessary two-thirds majority. More than 115 ballots had been held by September 1980. Demirel's supporter Erbakan meanwhile railed against the West and openly called for an Islamic Republic of Turkey. Ecevit's attacks on the Demirel government intensified. Political murders were now the order of the day. On September 12, 1980, the military seized power and on September 20, 1980, a new government set up under the former naval commander Bülend Ulusu .

minister

43rd Government of the Republic of Turkey,
Demirel VI Cabinet - December 12, 1979 to September 11, 1980

title	Surname	Political party	Term of office
Prime Minister	Suleyman Demirel	AP
Minister of State
	Orhan Eren	AP
	Muhammet Kelleci	AP	November 12, 1979 - May 15, 1980
	Ekrem Ceyhun	AP
	Ahmet Karahan	AP
	Metin Musaoğlu	AP
	Köksal Toptan	AP
Minister of Justice	Ömer Ucuzal	AP
Defense Minister	Ahmet İhsan Birincioğlu	AP
Interior minister	Mustafa Gülcügil Orhan Eren	AP	November 12, 1979 - July 21, 1980 August 4, 1980 - September 12, 1980
Foreign minister	Hayrettin Erkmen	AP
Finance minister	İsmet Sezgin	AP
Minister of Education	Orhan Cemal Fersoy	AP
Minister for Public Works	Selahattin Kılıç	AP
Minister of Commerce	Halil Basol	AP
Minister for Health and Welfare	Ali Münif İslamoğlu	AP
Minister for Customs and Monopolies	Ahmet Çakmak	AP
Minister for Agriculture and Agriculture	Cemal Külahlı	AP
Minister of transport	Hüseyin Özalp	AP
Minister of Labor	Hüseyin Cavit Erdemir	AP
Minister for Social Security	Sumer Oral	AP
Minister for Industry and Technology	Kemal Bayar	AP
Minister of Culture	Tevfik Koraltan	AP
Minister of Construction and Settlement	Turgut Toker	AP
Minister for Village Affairs and Cooperatives	Ahmet Karayiğit	AP
Minister for Forests	Hasan Ekinci	AP
Minister for Youth and Sport	Talat Asal	AP
Minister for Tourism	Barlas Küntay	AP
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Esat Kıratlıoğlu	AP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 43rd Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on May 2, 2018