Suphi Baykam

Suphi Baykam (1926–1996) was a Turkish physician and politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP). He served at the Parliament for three terms.

Early life and education He was born in Adana in 1926. His father worked as a teacher and then as a tax official.

Baykam served as the president of the Turkish National Student Union between 1948 and 1950 while attending the School of Medicine. During his term the Union adopted a Kemalist approach unlike its previous ideology of nationalism. He was dismissed from his assistantship when he was involved in the CHP's propaganda activities before the general election in 1954. Following the military coup on 27 May 1960 a Constituent Assembly was formed. Baykam was a representative of the CHP at the Assembly. He was again elected as a member of the CHP's council in the congress held in October 1964. After the end of his term at the Parliament he retired from politics.

Views For Baykam Kemalism was the opposite of wild capitalism, racism, communism, and reaction.

Baykam died on 21 June 1996.

Legacy Alptekin Gündüz published a book in memory of Suphi Baykam in 2004.