Mehmet Haberal

Haberal at a conference

Mehmet Haberal (* 1944 in Subaşı , Pazar , Rize ) is a Turkish author, doctor of medicine, university professor, university dean and member of parliament.

Life

Education and academic career

In 1967 Haberal graduated from the medical faculty of Ankara University and then until 1971 the specialist training in surgery. In 1973, he specialized in burns at the Shriners Brand Institute and John Seally Hospital in Galveston , United States . From 1974 to 1975 he specialized in transplant medicine . In 1975 he founded a transplant and burn wound treatment center in the surgery department of Hacettepe University . On November 3rd of the same year he succeeded in having the first kidney transplant from a living donor in Turkey. Furthermore, he was elected national representative for the International Society for Burn Injuries (German: International Society for Burn Injuries ). In 1976 he became a lecturer. On October 10, 1978, he made the first kidney transplant in Turkey with the help of Eurotransplant , which provided the donor. In 1979, according to his personal website, he initiated the passage of the law number 2238 on organ and skin transplants. The first National Medical Fire Congress was organized by him on May 26th and 27th. On July 27th, he performed Turkey's first kidney transplant with a local carcass donor.

In 1980 he founded the Türkiye Organ Nakli ve Yanık Tedavi Vakfı (German: Turkish Foundation for Organ Transplantation and Burn Treatment). In 1982 he founded the first dialysis center in Turkey for the foundation he initiated. In the same year he became professor and board member of the International Burn Injury Society and its representative for the Eastern Mediterranean region. In 1983 he organized Turkey's first organ transplant congress in Ankara. In the same year he succeeded for the first time in the world in extending the preservation of donor kidneys from 36 hours to 111 hours. He was awarded the Sedat Semavi Foundation's 1983 Prize for Medical Achievement . Haberal was a founding member of the Mediterranean Burns Club and the Middle East Foundation for Dialysis and Organ Transplantation in 1984 . Between November 17th and 20th he organized the first congress of this foundation. On September 16, he opened the hospital of the Turkish Foundation for Organ Transplantation and Burn Treatment, which he had founded. In the same year he was awarded the Everett Idris Evans Special Prize by the American Burn Injury Association. In 1986 he was elected Deputy Secretary General of the International Burn Injury Society. He also founded the Haberal Eğitim Vakfı (Eng .: Haberal Education Foundation) in 1986 , which has since distributed scholarships to more than 5000 students. 1986 was also the year he became a Fellows of the American college of Surgeons . In 1987 Haberal was the founding president of the Association for Organ Transplants in the Middle East. In 1988 he organized the first congress of the same association in Turkey. On December 8, 1988, he succeeded in getting the first liver transplant from a carcass donor in Turkey.

In 1990 he became the founding president of the Turkish Association for Organ Transplantation and on March 15 he achieved the first partial liver transplant from a living donor in Europe on a child. On April 24 of the same year, he completed the first partial liver transplant from a living donor to an adult in Turkey. On May 16, he performed the first partial kidney and liver transplant from a living donor on an adult in Turkey. In the same year he was accepted into the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1993, together with the Turkish Foundation for Organ Transplantation and Burn Treatment and his Education Foundation, he founded the Başkent University in Ankara, which includes 11 faculties and a therapy and rehabilitation center. In 1994 he founded the research center in Izmir, which is part of the university and named after Ataturk's mother Zübeyde. In 1995 he founded the Burn and Burn Disaster Association of Turkey. In 1998 he founded the first dialysis center in the Turkish province in Yalova and a hospital belonging to the Başkent University in Adana. In the same year he also founded the Burn and Fire Disaster Association for the Middle East. In 1999 he founded a school called Ayşeabla belonging to Başkent University .

In 2000 he founded hospitals belonging to the Başkent University in Alanya and Ankara. In 2000 Haberal was also awarded the Millennium Prize of the International Burn Injury Society for his services to organ transplantation at a congress in Rome. In 2002 he founded another hospital in Adana belonging to the Başkent University. In that year he also founded the Association for Clinical Trials and Research. In 2003 he became an honorary member of the American Surgial Association (German: American Society for Surgery) and founded a hospital for Başkent University in Konya . In 2004 he became a member of the Academy of Surgical Research and founded TV channel B , Radio BAşkent and the Başkent Haber Ajansı news agency . At the 2004 Congress of the International Burn Injury Society in Japan, he was elected President of the organization from 2006 to 2008. Haberal opened a contact office in Munich in 2007 and a polyclinic in 2008 for the university he founded in Ümitköy, Ankara. During his medical career, Haberal has performed 1,730 kidney transplants and 320 liver transplants. According to the scientific publisher Elsevier , Haberal is said to be the Turkish researcher with the most scientific publications from 1999 to 2009.

Ergenekon investigation

Mehmet Haberal was arrested together with other university directors in 2009 as part of the Ergenekon investigation. Haberal, whom the press calls a Kemalist , is suspected of having planned, along with others, the overthrow of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government and his AKP party . He and the others arrested are as secularists referred to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk are required and the ACP see as Islamists. Haberal is said to have issued a forged medical certificate to former Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit . He is also accused of having organized conspiratorial meetings of the Ergenekon group in two hotels in Ankara. Haberal is said to have supported a coup plan with the code name Sarıkız .

The then opposition leader Deniz Baykal commented critically on the investigation: This is the way to fascism . He went on to say: A bitter and sinister sight opens up before us. Whoever planned and implemented this and who has remained silent about it takes a heavy responsibility in front of the story. That can only be described as terror. And that is without a doubt also a (e) coup. Let me be clear: this is of course a political coup, an AKP coup, a prosecutor's coup - which is even more bitter . The US magazine for foreign policy backgrounds Foreign Policy suspects that the Fethullah Gülen movement is behind the arrests. According to the Turkish daily Hürriyet , the former Turkish President Suleyman Demirel is said to have adopted Haberal as support when he was arrested. Haberal is said to have recalled that in 1980, at the time of the military coup in Turkey , he said goodbye to Demirel . Haberal is still incarcerated and in poor health in the intensive care unit of the Cardiological Institute at the University of Istanbul.

After several years of negotiations, the verdicts were pronounced on August 5, 2013. 21 of the 275 accused - including high-ranking former military officers, journalists, academics and Mehmet Haberal himself - were acquitted.

Political career

In the 2011 parliamentary election , Haberal ran for the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi in Zonguldak Province and was elected to the National Assembly. Haberal was unable to take up his post as a member of parliament because he was in custody until mid-2013. At the opening of parliament at the beginning of October 2013, Haberal took his oath of office.

Prizes and awards

• In 1983 he was awarded the Sedat Simavi Prize for Medicine.
• In 2005 he became a member of the Fellow of the International College of Surgeons . In the same year he was made an honorary member of the board of the Brazilian Burns Association and was awarded a prize for lifelong merit by the Kuwaiti Minister of Health.
• In 2006 he received honorary doctorates from two universities in Azerbaijan and Pakistan.
• In 2007 he received an award from the Turkish Minister of Health for his efforts in organ donation and organ transplantation and a prize at the First National Burns Week event in Dubai.
• In 2008 he received a prize from Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for his pioneering role in the field of kidney transplantation.
• In 2008 he received a prize from Prince Raad bin Zeid for his pioneering role in the field of liver transplantation.
• In 2008 he received an award from Dicle University , Diyarbakır, for his services to organ donation and organ transplantation.
• In 2008 he became visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis .
• In 2008 he was awarded a prize for his services to the International Society for Burn Injuries .
• In 2008 he received honorary membership at the Prague Burn Injury Center from Professor Dr. Radava Königova awarded.
• In 2008, the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation awarded the honorary membership plaques.
• In 2008 he was awarded honorary membership of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Iran.
• In 2008 he received an award from the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (German: Association of the Middle East for Organ Transplantation).
• In 2010 Haberal was awarded honorary membership by the American Surgeons Association.

Fonts

• Suçum ne (de: What is my fault ), Mehmet Haberal , (Turkish)
• Belgelerle Silivri Gerçeği (de: With documents the Silivri Warheit ), Mehmet Haberal , Publisher: Solaris Kitabevi , (Turkish)
• Belgeler ve Gerçekler (de: Documents and Realities ), Mehmet Haberal , (Turkish)
• Ülkemize hizmetin bedeli bu mu? (de: Is that the price for my service to our country ), Mehmet Haberal , (Turkish)

Web links

• Official homepage (Turkish / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Personal website Mehmet Haberals: Biographical information , (Turkish), (English)
2. ^ News portal of the Austrian daily Die Presse : Opposition leader: Turkey on the "Path to Fascism" , accessed on April 17, 2009
3. ↑ News portal of the daily newspaper Die Welt : Academics arrested for alleged Ergenekon links , accessed on April 13, 2009, (English)
4. ↑ freiheit.org: Sensation during the Ergenekon investigations - Türkan Saylan and leading academics arrested ( memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 91 kB) In: Turkey Bulletin of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , edition 07/09, reporting period: April 15 to 30, 2009 
5. ↑ Internet portal of the US foreign policy magazine Foreign Policy : Whats really behind Turkeys coup arrests , accessed on February 25, 2010, (English)
6. ↑ Internet portal of the Turkish daily newspaper Hürriyet : Zincirbozan'ı unutmadı , accessed on April 14, 2009, (Turkish)
7. ↑ Internet portal of the Turkish daily newspaper Star : Mehmet Haberal yoğun bakımda , accessed on April 17, 2009, (Turkish)
8. ↑ Internet portal of the Turkish daily Milliyet : Prof. Haberal'a ABD'den 'seçkin cerrah' ödülü , accessed on January 16, 2011, (Turkish)