Yıldırım Aktuna

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Yıldırım Aktuna (* 1930 in Istanbul ; † September 29, 2007 there ) was a Turkish psychiatrist and politician . From 1991 to 1993 and in 1996/97 he was the health minister of his country. From 1993 to 1995 he was Minister of State and Government Spokesman.

Life

Aktuna was born in Istanbul in 1930 as the son of Naci and Necmiye Aktuna and graduated from university in 1948 in Izmir . He then studied human medicine as a cadet student at the Istanbul Universitesi . In 1954 he received his doctorate with the rank of lieutenant .

Military career

His first job in the Turkish armed forces was that of a senior medical officer in the 26th Brigade of the 66th Army Division. After a one-year language course in English at the Army Language School in Ankara , Aktuna was sent to the United States, where he completed medical training at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston , San Antonio , in 1958/59 .

After his return, Aktuna completed specialist training in neuropsychiatry at the Gülhane Medical Military Academy in Ankara by 1962 . He then worked as a medical officer at several locations in Turkey. Between 1967 and 1989 he taught at the Kabul Military Hospital in Afghanistan . In 1970 he was retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Career as a doctor

Aktuna became deputy chief physician at the psychological ward of the Şişli Children's Hospital in Istanbul and later became chief physician there.

Aktuna lived in Austria between 1972 and 1973 and trained in neurology and electroencephalography (EEG) at the neurological clinic of the University of Vienna .

In 1979, Yıldırım Aktuna became the chief physician of Bakırköy Psychiatric Clinic in Istanbul. He modernized the hospital and dedicated himself primarily to public health care. He established an alcohol and drug center at the clinic in 1983, the first of its kind in Turkey.

politics

Yıldırım Aktuna resigned his position on December 30, 1988 and became a member of the social democrat Halkçı Parti (SHP). On March 26, 1989, he was elected mayor of Bakırköy .

After two and a half years he left the office and became a member of the Doğru Yol Partisi (DYP) on August 27, 1991 . In the parliamentary elections on October 20, 1991 , he was elected member of the Turkish National Assembly for Istanbul .

Yıldırım Aktuna was Minister of Health in the cabinet of Suleyman Demirel from 1991 to 1993 . Prime Minister Tansu Çiller appointed Minister of State and Government Spokesman in 1993. After two years he was again Minister of Health in 1996/97 under Mesut Yılmaz and Necmettin Erbakan . In his role as Minister of Health, he initiated a reform of health care and organized two national health congresses. At the same time, he supported the activities he initiated at Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital.

From 1998 to 1999 Aktuna was Minister of State under Mesut Yılmaz.

On May 30, 1996, Yıldırım Aktuna left the DYP, but remained in Parliament as an independent MP. On July 1st of the following year he joined the Democrat Türkiye Partisi (DTP), which had been founded a few months earlier by dissatisfied DYP politicians. Aktuna became the deputy of the DTP chairman Hüsamettin Cindoruk . At the end of November 2001 he returned to the DYP. In 2003 he joined the Liberal Demokrat Parti (LDP).

death

In February 2007, Aktuna was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He spent the following months on gene therapy in China, which, however, did not work.

Aktuna died on September 29, 2007 in Taksim Alman Hastanesi in Istanbul, where he had been taken from Bodrum twelve days earlier . He was buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery on October 2.

Aktuna was divorced twice. His second marriage was to the stage actress Zeliha Berksoy, daughter of the Turkish prima donna Semiha Berksoy . He had a son.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Yıldırım Aktuna vefat etti ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), NTV MSNBC, September 30, 2007 (Turkish)
  2. ↑ 49th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on April 28, 2018 (Turkish)
  3. ↑ 50th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on April 27, 2018 (Turkish)
  4. ↑ 53rd Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on April 28, 2018 (Turkish)
  5. ↑ 54th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed April 27, 2018 (Turkish)
  6. ↑ 55th Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on April 27, 2018 (Turkish)
  7. ↑ a b Tıp ve siyasetin renkli yüzü Aktuna'yı kaybettik , Sabah , September 30, 2007 (Turkish)
personal data
SURNAME Aktuna, Yıldırım
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish psychiatrist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2007
Place of death Istanbul