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İsmail Nihat Erim (30 de noviembre de 1912 [1] - 19 de julio de 1980) fue un político y jurista turco . Se desempeñó como el decimotercer primer ministro de Turquía durante casi 14 meses después del memorando militar turco de 1971 . Fue asesinado por el Partido / Frente Revolucionario de Liberación del Pueblo en Estambul en 1980.

Biografía [ editar ]

Nihat Erim nació en Kandıra de Raif Erim y Macide Erim. Después de graduarse de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Estambul en 1936, estudió más para obtener su doctorado en la Facultad de Derecho de París en 1939. Regresó a Turquía para convertirse en profesor asistente en 1939 y profesor en 1942 en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Ankara .

Fue nombrado asesor legal del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores en 1943 mientras aún estaba en la universidad. También se desempeñó como asesor en el comité turco en la conferencia sobre la fundación de las Naciones Unidas en San Francisco en 1945. Ese mismo año, fue elegido y se desempeñó como representante de la provincia de Kocaeli en el Parlamento turco para unirse al Partido Popular Republicano. ( Turco : Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi , CHP) en el parlamento. En 1949, se desempeñó como ministro de Obras Públicas y luego como viceprimer ministro .

Erim estaba casado con Kamile Erim de soltera Okutman y tiene dos hijos, Işık Erim e Işıl Onalp de soltera Erim. Tiene cinco nietos y diez bisnietos.

Carrera política [ editar ]

Nihat Erim en una visita a Washington DC

In 1950, when CHP lost the majority in the parliament after the elections, he lost his seat and became the chief politics editor and leading writer of the newspaper "Ulus" ("Nation"). When it was closed down by the government, he went on to publish his own newspaper, "Yeni Ulus–Halkçı" ("New Nation–Populist") in 1953. In 1956, he participated at the negotiations on Cyprus in London, England. The same year, he was selected as the Turkish member of the European Commission on Human Rights to serve in this position until 1962. He led the Turkish committee on the preparation of the Cyprus constitution in 1959, following Zurich and London Agreements. He continued legally advising the Turkish committees at further negotiations on Cyprus at the United Nations.

After the military coup of 1960, once again he was elected and served as Kocaeli representative in the parliament, and this time as head of the CHP group. He was one of the focal points of internal conflicts of CHP, opposing the leader Ismet Inönü. The conflict resulted in him being ousted from the party in 1962. He was re-elected to the party's ruling committee taking second highest votes, thus joining the party again.

He served as the Turkish representative at the Council of Europe between 1961 and 1970, and was elected as deputy secretary general in 1961. In 1969, he was appointed as a member of the UN International Law Commission in The Hague, Netherlands.

In Turkey, after a spree of political violence, and the coup by memorandum, the army forced the resignation of prime minister Süleyman Demirel on March 12, 1971. Nihat Erim, while still at the university, was advised to withdraw from his post in the Republican People's Party (CHP) by the National Security Council, which was then heavily influenced by the military. He was appointed a neutral and technocratic prime minister on March 26, 1971 to form a "national unity" coalition government (see 33rd government of Turkey), the first of a series of weak governments until the elections in 1973.

Erim was forced to resign when 11 technocratic ministers of his cabinet resigned as a body on December 3, 1971. However, he was appointed once more by the President Cevdet Sunay, and he formed his second cabinet on December 11, 1971. He resigned on April 17, 1972 on health grounds, when his decision to promulgate decree laws was not backed by the parliament. His resignation was approved on May 22, 1972, and Ferit Melen, representative of the Van Province and minister of national defense in his cabinet, was appointed as the new prime minister and formed his own cabinet.

During his premiership, a significant contribution he made to Turkish politics was to form a ministry of culture (today in the form of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism), which was until then a mere department within the ministry of education. He appointed Talat Halman, journalist-writer, as the minister to this newly formed post. His government's prohibition of opium poppy harvesting in June 1971 under US pressure fired controversy. A change in the constitution brought together a witch hunt for leftists, reaching its peak after the abduction and killing of the Israeli ambassador Efraim Elrom in May 1971. One of the boldest actions taken during Erim's prime ministry was the closing down of the Workers Party of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye İşçi Partisi, TİP).

Assassination[edit]

Erim was shot to death by two gunmen near his home in Kartal, Istanbul on July 19, 1980. Radical leftist Turkish militant group Dev Sol (Revolutionary Left) claimed responsibility for the attack.[2] The assassination might have accelerated the military coup on September 12 of that year led by chief of staff Kenan Evren. The motive behind the assassination is thought to be related to the approval by the parliament of the execution of three leftist militants, one being Deniz Gezmiş, during his service as prime minister.

Erim's assassination was part of the wave of political violence in Turkey in the late 1970s between left-wing Marxist and right-wing ultranationalist groups.

See also[edit]

  • List of assassinated people from Turkey

Books[edit]

  • Le Positivisme Juridique et le Droit International (Judicial Positivism and International Law), 1939.
  • XVII. Yüzyıldan Zamanımııza Kadar Tabii Hukuk Nazariyeleri (Natural Theories of Law from 17th Century Until Today), translation from Le Fur, 1940.
  • Amme Hukuku Dersleri (Public Law Lessons), 1941.
  • Devletlerarası Amme Hukuku (International Public Law), translation from Le Fur, 1944.
  • Siyasi Tarih ve Devletlerararası Hukuk Metinleri (Political History and International Law Texts), 1953.

References[edit]

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Newton, Michael (2014-04-17). Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 138. ISBN 9781610692861.
  • Kılıçlıoğlu, Safa; Araz, Nezihe; Devrim, Hakkı; (eds.) (1969). Erim (Nihat). In Meydan-Larousse Büyük Lügat ve Ansiklopedisi, Vol. 4; p. 319. Meydan Yayınevi, Istanbul.