Cemal Reşit Eyüpoğlu
Turkish politician and journalist (1906–1988)
- Istanbul University
- University of Paris
- Finance officer
- Journalist
- Lawyer
Cemal Reşit Eyüpoğlu (1906 – 21 January 1988) was a Turkish finance officer, lawyer, politician and journalist. He was a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP). He served at the Parliament from 1950 to 1954 and the Constituent Assembly in 1961. He was a leftist and Kemalist figure and cofounded some publications, including Yön and Devrim.
Early life and education
He was born in Akçaabat, Trabzon, in 1906.[1] He was part of a well-known family, and his father was Harun Reşit Bey, and his mother was Hatice Hanım.[2]
He obtained a degree in law from Darülfünun, precursor of Istanbul University, in 1930. Then he received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris.[3]
Career and activities
Eyüpoğlu joined the Inspection Board on 18 March 1931 as an assistant inspector and worked at the Board until 11 February 1941.[3] Then he was appointed general director of the National Real Estate.[3] He served as a member of the Finance Inspection Board between 1944 and 1950.[3] He was elected as a deputy from Trabzon for the CHP in the 1950 general election and served in the 9th term of the Parliament.[1] He was made a member of the Constituent Assembly on 6 January 1960 and served in the post until 25 Ekim 1960. After the end of his term at the Assembly he worked as a freelance lawyer.[1]
Eyüpoğlu founded a newspaper, Vatan, in Ankara in 1961.[1] Eyüpoğlu, Doğan Avcıoğlu and Mümtaz Soysal started the Yön magazine in December 1961.[2][4] Eyüpoğlu also published articles in the magazine.[5] He and other major figures of the period, including İdris Küçükömer, established the Socialist Culture Society (Turkish: Sosyalist Kültür Derneği) in 1963.[6][7] Eyüpoğlu and Avcıoğlu also established the Devrim (Turkish: Revolution) newspaper in 1969.[1]
Personal life and death
Eyüpoğlu was married to Engin Eyüboğlu, and they had no children.[2]
Eyüpoğlu died of kidney failure at Ibn Sina Hospital, Ankara, on 21 January 1988.[1][2] He was buried in Trabzon on 24 Ocak.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Cemal Reşit Eyüboğlu". biyografya.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Esen Ertuğrul (2019). Yön/devrim hareketi içinde bir siyaset adamı ve bürokrat: Cemal Reşit Eyüboğlu (MA thesis) (in Turkish). Eskişehir Osmangazi University. pp. 6–7, 73–74.
- ^ a b c d "Cemal Reşit Eyüboğlu" (in Turkish). Maliye Müfettişleri Derneği. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- ^ Emel Akçali; Mehmet Perinçek (2009). "Kemalist Eurasianism: An Emerging Geopolitical Discourse in Turkey". Geopolitics. 14 (3): 555. doi:10.1080/14650040802693564.
- ^ İlhan Bilici (2023). "Promotion of Tutelary Democracy as a Social Engineering Project by a Political Intellectual Movement: A Study on Yön Journal". Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci. 44 (2): 329. doi:10.30925/zpfsr.44.2.1.
- ^ Özgür Mutlu Ulus (2010). The Army and the Radical Left in Turkey: Military Coups, Socialist Revolution and Kemalism. London; New York: I.B. Tauris. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-85771-880-8.
- ^ Fatma Yurttaş Özcan (2011). Bir Aydın Hareketi Olarak aydınlar ocağı ve Türk Siyasetine Etkileri (PhD thesis) (in Turkish). Sakarya University. p. 88. ISBN 9798835583072. ProQuest 2689289183.
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