Ahmet Necdet Sezer
10th President of Turkey (born 1941)
- Fame59.4
- Momentum0.3
- Global rank#142
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- Fame59.4
- Momentum0.3
- Global rank#142
- Turkey rank#247
- Politicians rank#64
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A judge who rose to Turkey's presidency and spent seven years drawing hard lines: vetoing laws, blocking headscarves from state receptions, and standing in the path of a rising conservative tide that would eventually sweep past him.
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Ahmet Necdet Sezer was born on 13 September 1941 and built a legal career that led him to the presidency of Turkey's Constitutional Court in January 1998. Two years later, after Süleyman Demirel's term expired, the Grand National Assembly elected Sezer as president in 2000 with broad parliamentary support. He took office as an ardent secularist, convinced that Turkey's secular foundations were under threat, and the conviction shaped everything that followed. A 2001 quarrel with Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit triggered a financial meltdown, blamed on coalition weakness and heavy IMF debt. When th…
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