Yıldırım Aktuna
| Yıldırım Aktuna | |
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| State minister of Turkey | |
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In office June 30, 1997 – January 11, 1999 Serving with Mehmet Salih Yıldırım, Metin Gürdere, Burhan Kara, Hasan Hüsamettin Özkan, Ahat Andican, Mehmet Batallı, Şükrü Sina Gürel, Hikmet Sami Türk, Yücel Seçkiner, Rifat Serdaroğlu, Işılay Saygın, Mehmet Cavit Kavak, Hasan Gemici, Mustafa Yılmaz, Işın Çelebi, Güneş Taner, Rüştü Kazım Yücelen |
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| Prime Minister | Mesut Yılmaz |
| Minister of Health of Turkey | |
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In office March 7, 1996 – April 26, 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | Necmettin Erbakan, Mesut Yılmaz |
| Preceded by | Doğan Baran |
| Succeeded by | Nafiz Kurt |
| State minister of Turkey | |
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In office June 25, 1993 – October 5, 1995 Serving with Ali Şevki Erek, Nurhan Tekinel, Salih Sümer, Mehmet Gazioğlu, Türkan Akyol, Ahmet Esat Kıratlıoğlu, Mehmet Gölhan, Azimet Köylüoğlu, Aysel Baykal, Mehmet Gülcegün, Ahmet Şanal, Nafiz Kurt, Şükrü Erdem, Ziya Halis, Necmettin Cevheri, Güneş Müftüoğlu, Bahattin Alagöz, İbrahim Tez, Onur Kumbaracıbaşı, Aykon Doğan, Mustafa Çiloğlu, Bekir Sami Daçe, Önay Alpago, Cemil Erhan, Erman Şahin, Ayvaz Gökdemir, Fikri Sağlar, Mehmet Ali Yılmaz, Abdülbaki Ataç, Mehmet Kahraman, Algan Hacaloğlu |
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| Prime Minister | Tansu Çiller |
| Minister of Health of Turkey | |
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In office November 20, 1991 – June 25, 1993 |
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| Prime Minister | Süleyman Demirel |
| Preceded by | Yaşar Eryılmaz |
| Succeeded by | Rıfat Serdaroğlu |
| District mayor of Bakırköy, Istanbul | |
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In office 1989–1991 |
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| Preceded by | Kemal Naci Ekşi |
| Succeeded by | Ali Talip Özdemir |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1930 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Died | September 29, 2007 (aged 77) Bodrum, Muğla Province |
| Resting place | Zincirlikuyu Cemetery, Istanbul |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Party for a Democratic Turkey (DTP), True Path Party (DYP), Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) |
| Spouse(s) | Zeliha Berksoy |
| Children | Oğul Aktuna (son) |
| Education | Medicine |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
| Profession | Military physician, psychiatrist, politician |
Yıldırım Aktuna (1930 – September 29, 2007) was a Turkish psychiatrist, politician, district mayor and government minister in a number of cabinets.
He was born 1930 in Istanbul. After completing the high school in Karşıyaka, Izmir in 1948, Yıldırım Aktuna attended the School of Medicine of the University of Istanbul as a cadet. In 1954, he graduated with Doctor of Medicine degree in the rank of a lieutenant.
His first post was chief physician officer of the 26th Brigade at the 66th Army Division. After completing a one-year English language course at the Army Language School in Ankara, Aktuna was sent to the United States, where he attended advanced education in general medicine at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio between 1958-1959.
Having returned home, Aktuna specialized in neuropsychiatry at the Gülhane Military Medical Academy in Ankara, finishing in 1962. He then served in the army as medical officer at various places in Turkey. Between 1967-1989, he was lecturer at the Kabul Military Hospital in Afghanistan. In 1970, he retired from the Turkish Army in the rank of a lieutenant colonel.
Switched over to civil service, he firstly was appointed Assistant Chief Physician at the Psychology Clinic of Şişli Children's Hospital in Istanbul. He later became the chief of that clinic.
Between 1972-1973, Aktuna sojourned in Austria to pursue advanced studies in neurology and electroencephalography (EEG) at the Neurological Clinic of the University of Vienna.
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