Sadun Aren was a Turkish academic and politician.
19 Facts About Sadun Aren
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Sadun Aren was one of the cofounders of Workers' Party of Turkey and of the leading figures of socialist movement in Turkey.
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Sadun Aren's father was a civil servant, and his mother was a housewife who died when Sadun Aren was a child.
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Sadun Aren graduated from Ankara University's Faculty of Political Science in 1944.
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Sadun Aren held a PhD which he received from the same university.
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Sadun Aren returned to Turkey in 1956, but was arrested for a short time due to his communist activities.
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Sadun Aren became full professor in 1957 at the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University.
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Sadun Aren became a cofounder of the Socialist Culture Association in 1963.
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Sadun Aren won a seat in the Parliament for the party representing Istanbul in 1965.
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Immediately after the military coup on 12 March 1971 Sadun Aren was arrested and imprisoned for three years in Nigde.
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Sadun Aren was not allowed to continue his academic work at the university and began to work as an advisor to a trade union, DISK.
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Sadun Aren was imprisoned one year after the military coup on 12 September 1980 and released in 1984.
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Sadun Aren founded a political party, Socialist Unity Party, in 1991.
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Sadun Aren died in Ankara on 8 March 2008 and buried there on 10 March.
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Sadun Aren published several articles in the newspapers and magazines, including Yon, Forum, Emek, Marksizm ve Gelecek and Politika.
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When Sadun Aren was a member of the Workers' Party he claimed that the focus should not be exclusively on the theory.
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Sadun Aren argued that the clash between socialism and capitalism should be nonviolent due to the changing nature of the economy and that discussions which led to polemics were not useful.
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Sadun Aren considered statism as an ideological tool to mobilize the masses.
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Sadun Aren was one of the opponents of Turkey's association with the European Economic Community on the grounds that it would have negative effects on Turkish industry which was not yet developed.