About Hikmet Sami Türk
Born 1935. Hikmet Sami Türk is a Turkish politician, university teacher and jurist.
Hikmet Sami Türk (born 1935 in Of, Trabzon
Biography Türk graduated from the Kabataş Erkek Lisesi, and then from Istanbul University's Law Faculty in 1958. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1964. Returning to Turkey he completed his military service and then joined the faculty of Ankara University in 1967, becoming a full professor in the law faculty in 1978, and teaching there until 1995.
He joined the law faculty of Bilkent University in 2005. In 2009 he survived an attempt to assassinate him at Bilkent University, when a suicide-bomber's bomb failed to detonate. Turk assumed the attack was in retaliation on his approval of the new high security prisons in Turkey in 2000.
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Who is Hikmet Sami Türk?
Turkish statesperson (born 1935)
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Hikmet Sami Türk was born in 1935 in Of.
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Hikmet Sami Türk is a politician, university teacher and jurist.
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Hikmet Sami Türk is Turkish.
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