Irmak's cabinet

Irmak
38th Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Sadi Irmak
choice	October 14, 1973
Appointed by	President Fahri Korutürk
education	January 26, 1974
The End	17th November 1974
Duration	0 years and 295 days
predecessor	Cabinet Ecevit I
successor	Cabinet Demirel IV
composition
Party (s)	independent transitional government
representation

The Irmak cabinet was the 38th government of Turkey , led by Prime Minister Sadi Irmak from November 17, 1974 to March 31, 1975 .

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 win the majority, while the Adalet Partisi (AP) lost massively. Cumhuriyetçi Güven Partisi (CGP), founded by Ecevit opponents and traditionalist Kemalists , only got 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.

President Fahri Korutürk entrusted Ecevit with forming a government, which, however, turned out to be difficult. Ecevit had prescribed a moderate left and social democratic program for the Kemalist party against the will of conservative forces. Most parties could not do much with the social reform course of the CHP, however. It was not until January 1974 that the CHP and MSP surprisingly agreed on a government program, which, however, did not contain any major reforms. One could only agree on the establishment of a social economy with state-controlled development planning and more social justice. 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 MSP, the CGP and the right-wing national MHP of Alparslan Türkeş .

minister

38th Government of the Republic of Turkey
Irmak Cabinet - November 17, 1974 to March 31, 1975

title	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Sadi Irmak
Deputy Prime Minister	Zeyyat Baykara
Minister of State
	Mehmet Özgüneş
	Muhlis Fer
	Salih Yıldız
Minister of Justice	Hayri Mumcuoğlu
Defense Minister	İlhami Sancar
Interior minister	Mukadder Öztekin
Foreign minister	Melih Esenbel
Finance minister	Bedri Gursoy
Minister of Education	Sefa Reisoğlu
Minister for Public Works	Vefa Tanır
Minister of Commerce	Haluk Cillov
Minister for Health and Social Security	Kemal Demir
Minister for Customs and Monopolies	Baran Tuncer
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry	Resat Aktan
Transport Minister	Sabahattin Özbek
Minister of Labor	Turhan Esener
Industry Minister	Mehmet Gölhan
Tourism Minister	İlhan Eliyaoğlu
Minister of Culture	Nermin Neftçi
Minister of Construction and Settlement	Selahattin Baburoglu
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Erhan Işıl
Minister for Village Affairs and Cooperatives	İsmail Hakı Aydınoğlu
Forest Minister	Fikret Saatçioğlu
Minister for Youth and Sport	Zeki Baloğlu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East ), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 38th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed March 27, 2019