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Fikri Sağlar

Fikri Sağlar

Turkish politician

Fikri Sağlar (born 1953) is a Turkish social democrat politician. He was Minister of Culture in the early 1990s, and a member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the Susurluk scandal. He has been a columnist for Birgün.[1]

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In 1983, he was elected deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP).[2][3] The SHP merged with the Republican People's Party (CHP) in the 1990s. Sağlar was a minister both in the 50th and in the 52nd government of Turkey. In 2001 Sağlar resigned from the CHP along with several others, having been referred to a disciplinary board (which cleared him) for allegedly working against the CHP's interests.[4][5] He co-founded the new Social Democratic People's Party in 2002,[6] becoming its Secretary-General.[7] In 2002, he was charged, along with some others, with insulting the government, due to some comments in a television discussion programme.[8]

He is the author of two books, Code Name Susurluk and Contemporary Culture from National to the Global.

References

  1. [1]
    Today's Zaman, 29 May 2008, Büyükanıt sues former deputy over blackmail claims Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    "Truth Commissions: Turkey in Light of World Experience: Biographies of Speakers". Archived from the original on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2013-07-02.
  3. [3]
    Lois Whitman, Jeri Laber (1987), State of Flux: Human Rights in Turkey : December 1987 Update, Human Rights Watch, p55
  4. [4]
    Hurriyet Daily News, 17 March 2001 Autumn in the CHP
  5. [5]
    Hurriyet Daily News, 1 March 2001, Saglar not to be dismissed from CHP
  6. [6]
    Hurriyet Daily News, 25 May 2002, Karayalcin establishes new SHP
  7. [7]
    Hurriyet Daily News, 22 June 2002, SHP's Saglar strongly criticizes government
  8. [8]
    Hurriyet Daily News, 19 April 2002, Bursa Court opens trial against Fikri Saglar


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