| Fikri Sağlar | |
| Birth Date: | 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Mut, Mersin |
| Office: | Minister of Culture |
| Term Start: | 1991 |
| Term End: | 1994 |
| Office2: | Minister of Culture |
| Term Start2: | 1995 |
| Term End2: | 1996 |
| Nationality: | Turkish |
| Party: | Social Democratic Populist Party, Republican People's Party, Social Democratic People's Party |
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.[1]
In 1983, he was elected deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP).[2] [3] 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.[4] [5] He co-founded the new Social Democratic People's Party in 2002,[6] becoming its Secretary-General.[7] In 2002, he was charged, along with some others, with insulting the government, due to some comments in a television discussion programme.[8]
He is the author of two books, Code Name Susurluk and Contemporary Culture from National to the Global.