Süleyman Demirel
9th President of the Republic of Turkey (1924-2015)
- Fame63.8
- Momentum0.2
- Turkey rank#144
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- Fame63.8
- Momentum0.2
- Turkey rank#144
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Lived 1924–2015, aged 91Turkey
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Seven times prime minister, then president — more than a decade at the top spread across three decades of Turkish politics. Süleyman Demirel survived two coups, a political ban, and enough cabinet collapses to break most careers, yet kept returning.
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An engineer tagged early by Adnan Menderes as future leadership material, Demirel took over the Justice Party in 1964 and toppled İsmet İnönü's government the next year without even holding a parliamentary seat. He became Turkey's first premier born after the republic's founding, won back-to-back majorities in 1965 and 1969, and styled his party as heir to the banned Democrats. The 1971 coup ended his third government; he spent four years in opposition before leading two short-lived Nationalist Front coalitions in the late seventies. The 1980 coup banned him from politics entirely. He returned…
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