Muammer Aksoy (1917 – January 31, 1990) was a Turkish academic of law, politician, columnist and intellectual, who was assassinated by Islamic militants for being a Kemalist.
He was born 1917 in İbradı, a district of Antalya to the member of the Ottoman parliament Numan Aksoy. After his graduation from the Law School at Istanbul University in 1939, Muammer Aksoy earned 1950 his Doctor of Law degree in the Faculty of Law and State Sciences at Univ...
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Muammer Aksoy (1917 – January 31, 1990) was a Turkish academic of law, politician, columnist and intellectual, who was assassinated by Islamic militants for being a Kemalist.
He was born 1917 in İbradı, a district of Antalya to the member of the Ottoman parliament Numan Aksoy. After his graduation from the Law School at Istanbul University in 1939, Muammer Aksoy earned 1950 his Doctor of Law degree in the Faculty of Law and State Sciences at University of Zurich. Returned to Turkey, he worked as an assistant in commercial law at Istanbul University and then as an associate professor in civil law at Ankara University.
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 (CHP). After the military coup in 1960, he returned to Ankara University to lecture constitutional law and collaborated on the preparation the Constitution of...
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