Cabinet Erim II

Erim II
34. Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Nihat Erim
choice	October 12, 1969
Appointed by	President Cevdet Sunay
education	December 11, 1971
The End	May 22, 1972
Duration	0 years and 163 days
predecessor	Cabinet Erim I.
successor	Cabinet Melen
composition
Party (s)	CHP , AP , CGP
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	388/450

The Erim II cabinet was the 34th government of Turkey , which was headed by Prime Minister Nihat Erim from December 11, 1971 to May 22, 1972 .

From 1970 onwards there were increasingly violent clashes between left and right-wing radical forces in Turkey. After the government lost the majority in parliament and was unable to restore public order and security in the country, the chief of staff issued a memorandum on March 12, 1971 calling on parliament to organize a strong and independent government that would end anarchy and prevent violence by democratic means and initiate reforms, otherwise the military would take over the business of government. Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel then resigned in protest.

President Cevdat Sunay tasked the lawyer and former CHP minister Nihat Erim with forming a government. In order to be considered independent, Erim resigned from the CHP and appointed a cabinet of independent experts and members of the AP and the CHP.

Erim appointed World Bank economist Atilla Karaosmanoğlu and CHP MP Sadi Koçaş, two well-known reformers, to be deputy prime ministers and added further reformers to the cabinet. But the cabinet was determined by a majority unwilling to reform. When Erim appointed Mesut Erez, a confidante of Demirel, as deputy prime minister in early December , the reformers in the government resigned and the government collapsed. The main reasons given by the forces willing to reform, however, were the differences of opinion in the government and the resistance to the modernization proposals.

In view of the reform backlog, some senior officers pushed for the establishment of a military government, but the leadership preferred the formation of a civilian government under Erim. So Erim was again charged with forming the cabinet. In February 1972, the government succeeded in implementing constitutional amendments with a large majority. The State Security Courts were created to facilitate the trial of "subversives" . Those who had fled for political reasons were expatriated and the Kurdish opposition was suppressed. At the end of April 1972, Erim gave up and resigned.

minister

34th Government of the Republic of Turkey
Erim II Cabinet - December 11, 1971 to May 22, 1972

title	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Nihat Erim	independently
Minister of State
	Ali İhsan Göğüş	CGP
	Doğan Kitaplı	AP
	İlhan Öztrak	independently
	İlyas Karagöz	AP
Minister of Justice	Suat Bilge	independently
Defense Minister	Ferit Melen	CGP
Interior minister	Ferit Kubat	independently
Foreign minister	Ümit Haluk Bayülken	independently
Finance minister	Sait Naci Elgin	independently
Minister of Education	İsmail Arar	CHP
Minister for Public Works	Mukadder Öztekin	CHP
Minister of Construction and Settlement	Serbülent Bingöl	independently
Minister for Health and Social Security	Cevdet Aykan	independently
Minister of Agriculture	Orhan Dikmen	independently
Minister for Village Affairs	Necmi Sönmez	independently
Forest Minister	Selahattin İnal	independently
Minister of Transport	Rıfkı Danışman	AP
Minister of Labor	Ali Rıza Uzuner	CHP
Minister of Commerce	Naim Talu	independently
Minister for Industry and Technology	Mesut Erez	AP
Minister for Customs and Monopolies	Haydar Özalp	AP
Tourism Minister	Erol Yılmaz Akçal	AP
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Nezih Devres	independently
Minister for Youth and Sport	Adnan Karaküçük	AP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East ), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 34th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed March 26, 2019