1. Muammer Aksoy was a Turkish lawyer, politician, columnist and intellectual who was assassinated.
11 Facts About Muammer Aksoy
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Muammer Aksoy quit his post in 1957 because he felt that the newly enacted university law would limit the academic liberty at the university, and entered his political life by joining the Republican People's Party.
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Muammer Aksoy collaborated on the preparation the Constitution of 1961.
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Muammer Aksoy began to work as the editor-in-chief of a weekly political magazine, Ortam, just after the military coup on 12 March 1971.
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Muammer Aksoy was arrested in the mid-1971 by the military authorities while serving in the post.
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Muammer Aksoy was elected in 1977 deputy of Istanbul from CHP.
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Muammer Aksoy served as the Turkish delegate to the European Council.
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Muammer Aksoy was president of the Turkish Law Institution for 15 years.
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Muammer Aksoy campaigned for the nationalization of the strategic natural resources as petroleum, coal and borax.
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Muammer Aksoy was murdered in the evening of January 31,1990 in front of his home in the Bahcelievler neighborhood of Ankara.
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Muammer Aksoy is survived by his wife and two children.