Fikri Sağlar
Fikri Sağlar (born 1953) is a Turkish social democrat politician. He was Minister of Culture in the early 1990s, and a member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the Susurluk scandal. He has been a columnist for Birgün.
Fikri Sağlar | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Culture | |
| In office 1991–1994 | |
| Minister of Culture | |
| In office 1995–1996 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1953 Mut, Mersin |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Political party | Social Democratic Populist Party, Republican People's Party, Social Democratic People's Party |
In 1983, he was elected deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP). The SHP merged with the Republican People's Party (CHP) in the 1990s. Sağlar was a minister both in the 50th and in the 52nd government of Turkey. In 2001 Sağlar resigned from the CHP along with several others, having been referred to a disciplinary board (which cleared him) for allegedly working against the CHP's interests. He co-founded the new Social Democratic People's Party in 2002, becoming its Secretary-General. In 2002, he was charged, along with some others, with insulting the government, due to some comments in a television discussion programme.
He is the author of two books, Code Name Susurluk and Contemporary Culture from National to the Global.