*** Welcome to piglix ***

Turgut Özal

His Excellency
Turgut Özal
Turgut Özal cropped.jpg
8th President of Turkey
In office
9 November 1989 – 17 April 1993
Prime Minister Yıldırım Akbulut
Mesut Yılmaz
Süleyman Demirel
Preceded by Kenan Evren
Succeeded by Süleyman Demirel
19th Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
13 December 1983 – 31 October 1989
President Kenan Evren
Deputy Kaya Erdem
Ali Bozer
Preceded by Bülend Ulusu
Succeeded by Yıldırım Akbulut
Leader of the Motherland Party
In office
20 May 1983 – 31 October 1989
Preceded by Party established
Succeeded by Yıldırım Akbulut
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
serving alongside Zeyyat Baykara
In office
20 September 1980 – 14 July 1982
Prime Minister Bülend Ulusu
Preceded by Turhan Feyzioğlu
Succeeded by Kaya Erdem
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office
6 November 1983 – 9 November 1989
Constituency Istanbul (1983, 1987)
Personal details
Born (1927-10-13)13 October 1927
Malatya, Turkey
Died 17 April 1993(1993-04-17) (aged 65)
Ankara, Turkey
Political party ANAP
Spouse(s) Ayhan İnal (m. 1952, div. 1952)
Semra Özal (m. 1954)
Children 3
Alma mater Istanbul Technical University
Religion Sunni Islam
Signature

Halil Turgut Özal (Turkish pronunciation: [tuɾˈɡut øˈzaɫ]; 13 October 1927 – 17 April 1993) was the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Motherland Party. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in the military government of Bülend Ulusu between 1980 and 1982.

After working briefly at the World Bank in the United States and as a university lecturer, Özal became the general secretary and later the leader of the main miners' trade union of Turkey in 1979, serving as a chief negotiator during large-scale industrial action in 1977. He unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in the 1977 general election as a National Salvation Party (MSP) candidate from İzmir. In 1979, he became an undersecretary to Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel's minority government until the 1980 military coup. As an undersecretary, he played a major role in developing economic reforms, known as the '24 January decisions,' which paved the way for greater economic liberalism of the Turkish economy. After the coup, he was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey responsible for the economy in Bülent Ulusu's and continued to implement economic reforms. He resigned in 1982 following disagreements over economic policy.


...
Wikipedia

...