17th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1974 to 1975

Mahmut Sadi Irmak (May 15, 1904, Seydişehir – November 11, 1990, Istanbul) was a Turkish academic in physiology, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Political career
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

He was born in the town Seydişehir of Konya, Ottoman Empire in 1904. He became teacher for biology after finishing the college in Konya. However, he quit his job the same year and attended the Law School at Istanbul University. In 1925, he went to Germany on a state granted scholarship to study biology and medicine. He graduated from the University of Berlin in 1929 with a degree in medicine. After completing his study, Sadi Irmak worked as an *istant physician in hospitals in Hagen and Düsseldorf, Germany. Irmak was fascinated by the National Socialist German Workers' Partys and was a prominent proponent of eugenics.

Returned to Turkey, he worked as a government physician and teacher for biology. In 1932, he became a lecturer at the School of Medicine of Istanbul University, and in 1939, he was promoted to full professor for physiology.

Political career

Sadi Irmak entered politics in 1943 as deputy of Konya. Between June 7, 1945 and August 5, 1946, he served as Minister of Labor in the cabinet of Şükrü Saracoğlu. He returned to the faculty, however, in 1950, to lecture first in Munich, Germany and then in Istanbul again. In 1974, he was admitted to the Senate. The same year, Sadi Irmak was commissioned by President Fahri Korutürk to form the 38th government of Turkey. The caretaker government under his prime ministry lasted from November 17, 1974 until his resignation on March 31, 1975 due to a vote of no confidence in the parliament. After the military coup on September 12, 1980, he was elected to the Consultative *embly. He acted as its speaker from October 27, 1981 until December 4, 1983.

Sadi Irmak died on November 11, 1990 in Istanbul, and was buried at the Aşiyan Asri Cemetery. He was survived by his wife and two children. His daughter, Prof. Yakut Irmak Özden, is director of the Ins*ute for Atatürk's Ideology and History of His Reforms at Istanbul University.

Notes

References

• Sadi Irmak's Biography (in Turkish)

External links

• Turkish Grand National *embly official website (in Turkish)

Consultative *embly
Danışma Meclisi
(1981–1983)

• Sadi Irmak

Grand National *embly
Büyük Millet Meclisi
(since 1983)

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