Mehmet Arif Demirer (1909 – 10 July 1995)[1] was a Turkish politician of the Democrat Party. He sat as a Member ('Deputy') of the 10th[2] and 11th[3] Grand National Assemblies in the 1950s representing the Afyonkarahisar electoral district.[1] He also represented Turkey in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1954–1955.[4]
Arif Demirer | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar | |
| In office 2 May 1954 – 27 May 1960 | |
| Minister of Transport (Menderes IV) | |
| In office 1955–1957 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mehmet Arif Demirer 1909 |
| Died | 10 July 1995 (aged 85–86) |
| Political party | Democrat Party |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
He served as Minister of Transport in the 4th Menderes government of 1955–1957.[5]
He had graduated from the law faculty of Istanbul University, and later studied economics at universities in Berlin and Munich.[1]
Outside of politics, Demirer served as the General Manager of the Turkish national post and telegraph directorate PTT, and also as the chairman of the national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, which he had earlier, in his role as the Minister of Transport, restructured and spun out of a public utility into a standalone joint-stock company (Anonim Ortaklığı).[1]
He was one of the passengers in the 1959 Turkish Airlines crash at Gatwick, in which more than half of those onboard died but he survived with injuries.[6][7]
References
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- ^ "Mehmet Arif Demirer, 10th assembly" (in Turkish). Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ "Mehmet Arif Demirer, 11th assembly" (in Turkish). Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ "Demirer, Arif". COE.int. Council of Europe. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ "Menderes hükümetinin bakanı Arif Demirer ile ilgili karar: Şerh kaldırıldı". Sabah (in Turkish). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ "Bir uçak kazası, bir devlet". Radikal (in Turkish). 12 January 2003. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ "On This Day: 17 February 1959". BBC News – On This Day. BBC News. Retrieved 6 October 2023.