Cabinet Melen

Melen
35th Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Ferit Melen
choice	October 12, 1969
Appointed by	President Cevdet Sunay
education	May 22, 1972
The End	April 15, 1973
Duration	0 years and 328 days
predecessor	Cabinet Erim II
successor	Cabinet Talu
composition
Party (s)	CHP , AP , CGP
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	388/450

The Melen cabinet was the 35th government of Turkey , which was headed by Prime Minister Ferit Melen from May 22, 1972 to April 15, 1973 .

From 1970 onwards there were increasingly violent clashes between left and right-wing radical forces in Turkey. After the government under Suleyman Demirel lost a majority in parliament and was unable to restore public order and security in the country, the chief of staff announced a memorandum on March 12, 1971 calling on parliament to organize a strong and independent government, which prevent anarchy and violence by democratic means and introduce 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. The cabinet consisted mainly of independent experts and members of the AP and the CHP. But shortly after the government was formed, the reformers resigned in the dispute over 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. So Erim was again charged with forming the cabinet. At the end of April 1972, Erim gave up and resigned.

President Sunay first commissioned the former Prime Minister and Senator Suat Hayri Ürgüplü to form a government, then the previous Minister of Defense and Senator Ferit Melen, who left the CHP after the left shift and joined the Kemalist-conservative Cumhuriyetçi Güven Partisi .

In August 1972, Faruk Gürler became the new chief of staff and thus the legitimate successor to President Sunay. Since the head of state had to be elected from among the people's representatives from the National Assembly or the Senate, Gürler moved to the Senate shortly before the election. But in the election he did not receive the required two-thirds majority in several rounds. Fahri Korutürk , who had been naval commander from 1957 to 1960 , was then proposed as a compromise candidate . Melen resigned the day after Korutürk was elected as the new president. Since the military had now prevailed with Kemalist reforms and the restoration of public order, new elections were scheduled for autumn 1973 and Trade Minister Naim Talu was appointed interim head of government.

minister

35th Government of the Republic of Turkey
Melen Cabinet - May 22, 1972 to April 15, 1973

title	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Ferit Melen	CGP
Minister of State
	İsmail Arar	CHP
	Doğan Kitaplı	AP
	İlhan Öztrak	independently
	Zeyyat Baykara	independently
Minister of Justice	Fehmi Alparslan	CGP
Defense Minister	Mehmet İzmen	independently
Interior minister	Ferit Kubat	independently
Foreign minister	Ümit Haluk Bayülken	independently
Finance minister	Ziya Müezzinoğlu	independently
Minister of Education	Sabahattin Özbek	independently
Minister for Public Works	Mukadder Öztekin	CHP
Minister of Construction and Settlement	Turgut Toker	AP
Minister for Health and Social Security	Kemal Demir	CHP
Minister of Agriculture	Necmi Sönmez	AP
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	Nuri Kodamanoğlu	CHP
Minister for Youth and Sport	Adnan Karaküçük	AP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East ), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 35th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed March 26, 2019