Orhan Aldıkaçtı

Orhan Aldıkaçtı (* 1924 in Samsun ; † May 22, 2006 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish professor of constitutional law and was instrumental in drafting the Turkish constitution of 1982.

In an interview with Die Zeit , he justified the - compared to the previous constitution - very restrictive new constitutional text by saying that Turkey was “not ripe for democracy”.

Life

In 1943 Aldıkaçtı graduated from Galatasaray High School and began studying law . He later received his doctorate from the University of Lausanne and in 1956 became an assistant at the University of Istanbul . The professorship followed there in 1968. A year later he was elected dean of the law school.

After the military coup of September 12, 1980 , he became a member of the Consultative Assembly and took over the chairmanship of the 15-member constitutional committee which drafted the new constitution. On June 15, 1983, he ended his membership and was again dean of the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University.

In 1991 he retired , but was a lecturer at Bahçeşehir University from 2001 to 2006 .

On May 22, 2006, he died of liver cancer at the age of 82 .

Works

• Les partis politiques dans les democraties moderne, en particulier en France et en Grande-Bretagne , 1955.
• Modern Demokrasilerde ve Türkiye'de Devlet Başkanlığı , Istanbul 1960.
• Anayasa Hukukumuzun Gelişmesi ve 1961 Anayasası (The Development of Our Constitutional Law and the Constitution of 1961), 2nd ed. 1972.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Referendum in Turkey: Democracy by Installments, November 12, 1982, No. 46 , accessed January 26, 2009.