Jurist and writer (b. 1917, İbradı
/Antalya – d. 31 January 1990, Ankara).
He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Law (1939). After
completing his doctorate studies in Zurich at the Faculty of Law and State
Sciences, he became a assistant of Commercial Law at İstanbul University,
Faculty of Law. Protesting against the new university’s constitution plan,
which the Democrat Party government had instigated, he left his job and joined
the Republican People’s Party (1958).
After the 27 May military coup, he
returned to the university and became a professor of Constitution Law at the
Faculty of Political Sciences. He was the spokesman of the commission that
prepared the 1961 Constitution. In 1975, he returned to the Republican People’s
Party, which he had left in 1969, and was elected as the İstanbul parliamentary
deputy (1977). He was imprisoned for a time during the 12 March period. He
became Head of the Turkish Jurists Association and Head of the Ankara Bar after
12 September. He was one of the founders of the Ataturkist Thought Association
along with Velidedeoğlu, Bahri Savcı and Bahriye Üçok. Human rights and
democracy were his interests and he supported the revolution and principles of
Atatürk during his whole life. He was killed by a gunshot wound.
WORKS:
Partizan
Radyo ve DP (Partisan
Radio and Democrat Party, 1960), Anayasa
Mahkemesi Üyelerinin Seçimi Konusundaki Tartışma ve Bunun Ortaya Çıkardığı Kamu
Hukuku Meseleleri (The Dispute on the Election of the Constitutional Court
Members and the Public Law Issues Emerging from That, 1962), Sanayi Bakanı Çelikbaş'ın Rejime, Hukuka ve
Memleket Menfaatlerine Aykırı Tutumu (The Attitude of the Minister of
Industry Çelikbaş Against the Law and the Benefits of the Homeland, 1962), Ulusal Petrol Davamız (Our National
Petrol Claim, 1964), Türkiye'deki Maden
Mücadelesi (The Struggle of Mines in Turkey, 2 volumes, 1975), Sosyalist Enternasyonal ve CHP (The
Socialist International and the Republican People’s Party, 1977).