Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
Statue of Ahmet Taner Kışlalı in Çayyolu, Ankara
Minister of Culture of Turkey
In office
5 January 1978 – 12 November 1979
Preceded byAvni Akyol
Succeeded byTevfik Koraltan
Personal details
Born(1939-07-10)10 July 1939
Zile, Tokat, Turkey
Died21 October 1999(1999-10-21) (aged 60)
Ankara, Turkey
Websiteahmettanerkislali.com

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (10 July 1939 – 21 October 1999) was a Turkish professor, politician, and commentator[1] who was assassinated. He served in the Parliament of Turkey in 1977 and was Minister of Culture in 1978 and 1979.

Biography

He completed his primary and secondary education in Kilis, and graduated from "Kabataş Erkek Lisesi" high school in Istanbul in 1957.

He received a degree from the School of Political Sciences at Ankara University, in 1963. During his college years, he also worked in the newspaper "Yeni Gün", published in Ankara. He got his PhD on "Çağdaş Türkiye'de Siyasal Güçler" (Political Powers in Contemporary Turkey) from the University of Paris, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science. He started his academic life as a lecturer in Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara. He then moved to School of Political Sciences at Ankara University and became an assistant professor, and later an associate professor in 1977.

Politically, he was a Kemalist who adopted the views of democratic socialism and social democracy.[2][3][4] In 1977 he was elected to the Turkish parliament, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, as deputy of İzmir. Between the years 1978 and 1979, he was appointed to position of ministry of culture, by prime minister Bülent Ecevit. During his term of ministry, he restarted the effort of printing classical works by the state press, making these available to masses at reasonable prices.

After the military coup of 12 September 1980, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı went back to the academia, and became a full professor in 1988. He continued to give lectures on political science in Department of Communication at Ankara University, after his retirement. Starting from 1991, he had a regular column in the leftist newspaper Cumhuriyet with the title "Haftaya Bakış" ("A View of the Week").

Assassination

Mottos
Grave of Ahmet Taner Kışlalı at Karşıyaka Cemetery.

On 21 October 1999, shortly after having faxed his article to the newly Cumhuriyet at 9:40 h local time, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı left his home and headed for his car. As he got in the car, he noticed a package placed at the windshield wiper. He picked it up with his left arm, and at that moment an explosion occurred tearing off his left arm at elbow. His wristwatch penetrated into his head together with bomb shrapnel. His wife Nilüfer Kışlalı arranged for his immediate delivery to a hospital, where however his death only was ascertained.[5]

After memorial services held at the Turkish Grand National Assembly, Faculty of Communications in Ankara University, Grand Theatre of Ankara Opera House, Ankara Office of Cumhuriyet newspaper, and religious funeral service at Kocatepe Mosque, he was laid to rest at Karşıyaka Cemetery in Ankara.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ahmet Taner Kislali". Committee to Protect Journalists. 1999-10-21. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
  2. ↑ Kışlalı, Ahmet Taner (1999-12-30). "Ahmet Taner Kışlalı – İdeolojisi ve Kemalizm..." Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  3. ↑ Kışlalı, Ahmet Taner (1999-12-18). "Ahmet Taner Kışlalı – 'Tarihsel Sentez'e Doğru!". Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  4. ↑ Kışlalı, Ahmet Taner (1992-06-07). "Ahmet Taner Kışlalı – Demokratik Sol mu? Sosyal Demokrasi mi?". Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  5. ↑ "Yine o meçhul fail". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 1999-10-22. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
  6. ↑ "Ahmet Taner Kışlalı 4 ayrı yerde tören". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 1999-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
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