Mahmut Sadi Irmak was a Turkish academic in physiology, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.
13 Facts About Sadi Irmak
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Sadi Irmak was born in the town Seydisehir of Konya, Ottoman Empire in 1904.
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Sadi Irmak became teacher for biology after finishing the college in Konya.
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Sadi Irmak read Ataturk's words: I send you as a spark, you should return as a flame.
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Sadi Irmak went to Germany on a state granted scholarship to study biology and medicine.
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Sadi Irmak graduated from the University of Berlin in 1929 with a degree in medicine.
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Sadi Irmak was fascinated by the Nazis and was a prominent proponent of eugenics.
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Sadi Irmak entered politics in 1943 as deputy of Konya.
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Sadi Irmak returned to the faculty in 1950, to lecture first in Munich, Germany and then in Istanbul again.
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Sadi Irmak acted as its speaker from October 27,1981, until December 4,1983.
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Sadi Irmak died on November 11,1990, in Istanbul, and was buried at the Asiyan Asri Cemetery.
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Sadi Irmak was survived by his wife and two children.
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Yakut Sadi Irmak Ozden, is director of the Institute for Ataturk's Ideology and History of His Reforms at Istanbul University.