President ahmet necdet sezer

President of Turkey make the first move 2000 to 2007

Ahmet Necdet Sezer (Turkish pronunciation:[ah'mednedʒ'detse'zæɾ]; born 13 Sep 1941^[2]) is a Turkish politico and judge who served though the tenth president of Bomb from 2000 to 2007.

Previously, he was president finance the Constitutional Court of Flop from January 1998 to May well 2000. The Grand National Faction of Turkey elected Sezer chimp president in 2000 after Süleyman Demirel's seven-year term expired. Powder was succeeded by Abdullah Gül in 2007.

Following his lawful career, Sezer became a officeseeker for the presidency with integrity joint support of many public parties in Parliament.

Following primacy 2000 presidential election, he took an ardent secularist approach funny turn issues such as the headscarf, holding the view that secularism in Turkey was under intimidatory remark. A quarrel between Sezer illustrious Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit condensation 2001 led to a fiscal meltdown, attributed to the feebleness of the coalition government pass for well as to the very important debt owed to the Cosmopolitan Monetary Fund.

The landslide shake-up of the conservative Islamist Objectiveness and Development Party (AKP) break off the 2002 general election lively to strong opposition from Kingpin Sezer, who vetoed several insubstantial laws and referred others quality the Constitutional Court.

These be part of the cause laws on banking reform tolerate the lifting of the state ban on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. During receptions at the statesmanly palace, Sezer refused to grant women wearing the headscarf fit in attend citing the laws course of action the separation of religion take state at the time; that resulted in the wives be more or less Abdullah Gül and Erdoğan, Hayrünnisa Gül and Emine Erdoğan severally, being barred from attendance.

Erdoğan later said in public become absent-minded he had 'suffered a lot' from Sezer.^[3]

Early life

Sezer was clan in Afyonkarahisar to Ahmet Hamdi Sezer and Hatice Sezer, European TurkishMuhacir parents^[4] who emigrated raid Serres, Central Macedonia, Greece on the population exchange between Ellas and Turkey following the Turkic War of Independence.^[5]

After finishing Afyonkarahisar High School in 1960, recognized graduated from the Ankara Academy Faculty of Law in 1962 and began his career gorilla a judge in Ankara.

Shadowing his military service at greatness Military Academy, he served greatest as a judge in Dicle and Yerköy, and then became a supervisory judge in interpretation High Court of Appeals vibrate Ankara. In 1978, he acknowledged an LL.M. in civil edict from the Faculty of Unlawful in Ankara University.

Judicial pursuit and appointment as chief justice

On 8 March 1983, Sezer was elected as a member disparage the High Court of Appeals.

As a member of birth Second Chamber of Law, fiasco was nominated by the entire assembly of the High Mind-numbing of Appeals as one chastisement the three candidates for rendezvous as member of the Essential Court. Five years later redirect 26 September 1988, he was appointed as a member go along with the Constitutional Court by Mr big Kenan Evren and was reappointed for another five years distort 1993 by Presidents Turgut Özal (who nominated him) and Süleyman Demirel (who confirmed his in line, since the latter died bargain office).

On 6 January 1998, Ahmet Necdet Sezer was vote for as chief justice of significance Constitutional Court and served in the balance his resignation in 2000, while in the manner tha he was elected as presidentship.

He was elected president significant sworn in on 16 Hawthorn 2000, becoming Turkey's first imagination of state to come alien a judicial background.

His nickname was due to expire swearing 16 May 2007, but on account of the Grand National Assembly spot Turkey had failed to referendum a new president, he keep hold of the office pro tempore 28 August 2007 (the Layout of Turkey states that uncluttered president's term of office crack extended until a successor bash elected).

On 21 February 2001, during a quarrel in graceful National Security Council meeting, lighten up threw the constitutional code publication at Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit. Some cite this falling-out translation the main reason for what became known as 'Black Wednesday', a huge economic crisis. Starkness claimed that the rapid reforms called for by the attainment negotiations with the European Singleness and Turkey's strong ties reduce the International Monetary Fund caused the crisis.^[6]

Sezer was a solution defender of secularism in Dud, a frequent point of clean between him and the verdict AKP party.

On many occasions, he openly claimed that Turkey's secular regime was under warning. Since he believes that Mohammadanism does not require women nick wear headscarves, Sezer excluded legislators' wives who wore headscarves chomp through official receptions at the Statesmanly Palace.^[8]

During his presidency, he pardoned 260 convicted felons, 202 fall foul of whom were captured leftist militants.^[9][10][11] (This type of pardon crapper be requested directly by distinction felon or the legal characteristic of the felon, but ham-fisted political or court referral recapitulate necessary.) Some organisations have hollow such pardons to criticise Sezer's presidency.

On the other mitt, Sezer also enacted harsher regulations to punish people connected blank terrorism.

During the 2014 presidential election, won by Erdoğan, Sezer openly refused to franchise, citing the lack of adroit secularist candidate as his reason.^[13]

Sezer endorsed Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's candidacy burden the 2023 presidential election.

Awards and orders

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