Kasım Gülek
Kasım Gülek (* 1905 in Adana ; † January 19, 1996 in Washington, DC ) was a Turkish politician of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP). He was a Member of the National Assembly, Senator, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Transport and Deputy Prime Minister.
Life
Gülek was born in Adana in 1905 as the son of Mustafa Rifat Bey and his wife Tayyibe Hanım. The father was an active member of the Young Turk Committee for Unity and Progress . Gülek attended elementary school there. In Istanbul he attended Galatasaray High School and Robert College . After graduating from university, he studied economics at the École des Sciences Politiques in Paris and completed postgraduate studies at Columbia University in the early 1930s , where he also received a doctorate in economics. Then he worked on a Rockefeller Fellowship at London University and Cambridge University . He then worked as a research assistant at universities in Hamburg and Berlin. After Mustafa Kemal Ataturk received a letter from the dean of Columbia University in which the dean praised Gülek, Ataturk offered him to sit as a member of parliament.
Gülek became a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly for the Bilecik Province in 1940 . In 1946 he became a deputy for Adana and chairman of the trade committee of the National Assembly. In 1947 he became Minister of Public Works and moved to the transport department the following year.
Gülek became one of the leading members of Ataturk's Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP). In 1947 he was one of a group of 35 MPs who campaigned for comprehensive reforms and more freedoms at a party meeting. The "rebellion of the 35" was not crowned with success and Gülek and three other comrades-in-arms were no longer allowed to hold ministerial offices. Gülek was most impressively remembered as Secretary General of the CHP from 1950 to 1959. Despite the rebellion, Gülek was elected Secretary General in 1950 and remained so until 1959. In the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 1950 , the CHP lost its absolute majority and fell by 46 .1% to only 39.1%. Gülek traveled tirelessly through many cities and across the country in the months that followed to promote the CHP. That earned him the nickname “politician with leather sandals”.
In 1961 he was a member of the constituent assembly after the military coup in Turkey in 1960 . From 1961 he sat again for Adana in parliament, but left the CHP during this time and was an independent MP. In the elections in 1969, he has not raced for more. He was subsequently appointed to the Senate by the President and remained in office until 1973. In the 57th government of Turkey under Bülent Ecevit, he held the post of Deputy Prime Minister.
At the international level, Gülek was Chairman of the UN Commission for Korea and a member of the Atlantic Institute , Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assemblies of NATO and the Council of Europe .
literature
- Meral Balcı: Sıradışı Bir Siyasetçi - Kasım Gülek . Yeditepe Yayınevi, 2015
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gülek, Kasım |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adana |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1996 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |