Recai Kutan

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Recai Kutan (2009)

Mehmet Recai Kutan (* 1930 in Malatya ) is a Turkish politician . He was chairman of the Saadet Partisi ( Party of Happiness ) and a high official of three forbidden predecessor parties of the Millî Görüş movement .

Life

Recai Kutan was born in Malatya (Turkey) in 1930 . In 1952 he finished his civil engineering studies at the Istanbul Technical University . Between 1952 and 1969, Kutan worked in various functions in the state water engineering authority ( Devlet Su İşleri ). There he also led the planning and research work for the Southeast Anatolia project . From 1969 to 1977 he headed the then newly founded company TÜMAŞ.

From 1973 Kutan was politically active in the National Salvation Party ( Millî Selamet Partisi , MSP) as deputy chairman. He was a member of the Turkish Parliament and from mid-1977 to early 1978, Minister of Construction. After the MSP was banned as a result of the 1980 military coup , he joined the Welfare Party ( Refah Partisi , RP), the successor party of the MSP, in 1983 . In the parliamentary elections of 1996 he again won a member of parliament and from mid-1996 to mid-1997 he was Minister for Energy and Natural Resources. In 1998 the welfare party was banned by the Constitutional Court in the course of the proceedings after February 28, 1997 (resignation of Prime Minister Erbakan (RP) under pressure from the National Security Council ) . In 1998, Kutan took over the chairmanship of its successor party, the Virtue Party ( Fazilet Partisi ) until it was banned in 2001. Recai Kutan took over the chairmanship of the successor party of Happiness ( Saadet Partisi ) in the same time . In 2003 he was replaced by Necmettin Erbakan , from whom he took over the office again in 2006. In October 2008 he was replaced by Numan Kurtulmuş .

In 1993, Kutan was one of the founders of Kanal 7 (Yeni Dünya Iletisim AS), a Turkish television broadcaster that first served the Welfare Party and then the Virtue Party to spread its ideas. In 2004 he became chairman of the "Center for Economic and Social Research" ( Ekonomik ve Sosyal Araştırmaları Merkezi , ESAM), which also belongs to the Milli Görüs movement.

Recai Kutan is married and has three children.

Positions

  • Recai Kutan declared in 2006: "Neither the resistance fighters of Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists, they are heroes." In contrast, he described the USA and Israel as terrorist organizations.
  • In 2007, Kutan explains about the PKK's problem : "The real boils and supporters of the terrorist organization are the EU, America and Israel."
  • Regarding Israeli politics, Kutan said in 2006: “Now it is clear that the Israelis want to take the land from the Nile to the Euphrates. And you realize this vision step by step. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 1998 ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 4.1.2 IGMG @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.im.nrw.de
  2. ↑ Recai Kutan Kanal 7'ye 'hisselerim buharlaştırıldı' davası açtı; ama sonunu getirmedi nethaber.com September 24, 2008
  3. ↑ Biography Recai KUTAN - Chairman of ESAM ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esam.org.tr
  4. ↑ Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlin.de  
  5. ^ Milliyet, August 6, 2006
  6. ↑ Report on the homepage of the "Party of Bliss" ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sp.org.tr
  7. ↑ Milli Gazete of July 24, 2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.milligazete.com.tr  
  8. ↑ Report of the news portal "Internethaber" ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.internethaber.com
  9. ↑ Milli Gazete of July 24, 2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.milligazete.com.tr  
personal data
SURNAME Kutan, Recai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kutan, Mehmet Recai (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician, chairman of the Party of Happiness (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Malatya