Turhan Feyzioğlu

Turhan Feyzioğlu (1922 – 24 March 1988) was a Turkish academic and a politician.

Early life He was born in Kayseri. After finishing the primary school in Kayseri, he attended Galatasaray High School and later studied at Istanbul University Law School. After post graduate studies at the University of Oxford, he returned to Turkey and became a faculty at Ankara University. In 1947, he obtained his Ph.D. from Ankara University with a thesis entitled "Judicial Supervision of the Conformity of Laws to the Constitution in Turkey and Other Countries." During this period, he also translated Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom.

Politics in CHP In 1957 he went into politics and became a member of Republican People's Party (CHP). In the same year he was elected as the MP from Sivas. In 1960 (during his service in METU) he also served in the constituent assembly and was appointed as the minister of education Turhan Feyzioğlu was one of the major figures of the party. But beginning by 1965, Bülent Ecevit the secretary general of the party who had the support of İsmet İnönü began to challenge his authority in the party. Turhan Feyzioğlu actively opposed the policy termed "left of center" , advocated by Bülent Ecevit.

Politics in Reliance Party On 12 May 1967 Turhan Feyzioğlu and his 47 followers in the parliamentary group broke away from CHP to form a new party named Reliance Party. Feyzioğlu became the chairman of the new party. On 29 January 1971, the party was renamed as National Reliance Party and on 4 May 1973, Republican Party, another party also issued from CHP, merged to Nationalistic Reliance Party.

Death After 1980, he withdrew from political life. Turhan Feyzioğlu died at the age of 66 in Ankara on 24 March 1988.

Books The following list includes the books authored by Feyzioğlu. Of these, five are written in Turkish and one in French.

Kanunların Anayasaya Uygunluğunun Kazai Murakabesi (1951) Demokrasiye ve Diktatörlüğe Dair (1957) Devlet Adamı Atatürk (1963) Atatürk ve Milliyetçilik Türk Millî Mücadelesinin ve Atatürkçülüğün Temel İlkelerinden Biri Olarak Millet Egemenliği Atatürk Yolu Un Liberateur et un Modernisateur Genial Kemal Atatürk