Ahmet Taner Kislali
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Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (1939-1999) was a Turkish intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, journalist/author and politician.
Kışlalı was born on July 10, 1939, in Zile, Tokat in Turkey. He completed his primary and secondary education in Kilis, and graduated from "Kabataş Erkek Lisesi" high school in İstanbul in 1957.
He graduated from School of Political Sciences at Ankara Üniversitesi, in 1963. During his college years he also worked in "Yeni Gün" newspaper, published in Ankara. He got his Ph.D. on " Çağdaş Türkiye'de Siyasal Güçler" (Political Powers in Contemporary Turkey) from University of Paris, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science. He started his academic life as a lecturer in Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara. He then moved to School of Political Sciences at Ankara University and became an assistant professor, and later an associate professor in 1977.
In 1977 he was elected to the Turkish parliament, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, as deputy of İzmir. Between the years 1978-1979 he was appointed to position of Ministry of Culture, by Bülent Ecevit. During his term of ministry, he restarted the effort of printing classical works by the state press, making these available to masses at cheap prices.
After the military coup of September 12, 1980, he went back to the academia and became a full professor in 1988. He continued to gave lectures on political science in Department of Communication in Ankara University, after his retirement. Starting from 1991, he had a reqular column in leftist "Cumhuriyet" newspaper with the title "Haftaya Bakış" (A View of the Week).
Kışlalı was killed by a car bomb placed by islamistic militants in front of his apartment in Ankara, on October 21, 1999.
External links
- Who is who entry page (http://www.belgenet.com/kim/akislali.html) in belgenet. (in Turkish)
- Ahmet Taner Kislali (http://www.anadolu.be/ahmet-taner-kislali.html) - His life, articles and books. (in Turkish)