| Turhan Feyzioğlu | |
| Birth Date: | 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Kayseri, Turkey |
| Death Place: | Ankara, Turkey |
| Nationality: | Turkish |
| Spouse: | Leyla Cıngıllıoğlu |
| Children: | 2 (1 adopted) |
| Relatives: | Metin Feyzioğlu (grandson) |
| Known For: | Dean of Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University Rector of Middle East Technical University |
| Alma Mater: | Istanbul University |
| Education: | Law |
| Occupation: | Politician, academician |
| Party: | Republican People's Party (CHP) Republican Reliance Party (CGP) |
| Term Start1: | 31 March 1975 |
| Term End1: | 21 June 1977 |
| Office1: | Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey |
| Primeminister1: | Süleyman Demirel |
| 2Blankname1: | Served with |
| 2Namedata1: | Necmettin Erbakan Alparslan Türkeş |
| Predecessor1: | Zeyyat Baykara |
| Successor1: | Orhan Eyüboğlu |
| Term Start2: | 25 June 1962 |
| Term End2: | 25 December 1963 |
| 3Blankname2: | Serving with |
| 3Namedata2: | Ekrem Alican Hasan Dincer |
| Primeminister2: | İsmet İnönü |
| Predecessor2: | Ali Akif Eyidoğan |
| Successor2: | Kemal Satır |
| Office3: | Minister of State |
| Primeminister3: | İsmet İnönü |
| Term Start3: | 20 November 1961 |
| Term End3: | 25 June 1962 |
| Office4: | Minister of National Education |
| Primeminister4: | Cemal Gürsel |
| Term Start4: | 5 January 1961 |
| Term End4: | 7 February 1961 |
| Predecessor4: | Bedrettin Tuncel |
| Successor4: | Ahmet Tahtakılıç |
| Office5: | Leader of the Republican Reliance Party |
| Term Start5: | 4 May 1973 |
| Term End5: | 16 October 1981 |
| Predecessor5: | Himself |
| Successor5: | Party abolished |
| Office6: | Leader of the National Reliance Party |
| Term Start6: | 29 January 1971 |
| Term End6: | 4 May 1973 |
| Predecessor6: | Himself |
| Successor6: | Himself |
| Office7: | Leader of the Reliance Party |
| Term Start7: | 12 May 1967 |
| Term End7: | 29 January 1971 |
| Predecessor7: | Party established |
| Successor7: | Himself |
| Term Start8: | 27 October 1957 |
| Term End8: | 12 September 1980 |
| Constituency8: | Sivas (1957) Kayseri (1961, 1965, 1969, 1973, 1977) |
Turhan Feyzioğlu (1922 – 24 March 1988) was a Turkish academic and a politician.
He was born in Kayseri. After finishing the primary school in Kayseri, he studied in Galatasaray High School and in Law school of Istanbul University. After post graduate studies in United Kingdom, he returned to Turkey and became a professor of Ankara University. In 1955, he was elected as the dean of Political Sciences School in Ankara University. He also began writing in the bulletin of his school. His articles however irritated the Democrat Party government and he had to resign. Although in 1960–1961 term he briefly returned to academics and served as the rector of Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, his main area of interest was politics.[1]
In 1957 he went into politics and became a member of Republican People's Party (CHP). In the same year he was elected as the MP from Sivas Province. In 1960 (during his service in METU) he also served in the constituent assembly and was appointed as the minister of education in Cabinet Gürsel I. In the elections held in 1961, he was elected as the MP from Kayseri Province, his home. He served in the two governments of İsmet İnönü In the first he served as state minister (French: ministre sans portefeuille) and in the second as deputy prime minister.[2] Turhan Feyzioğlu was one of the major figures of the party. But beginning by 1965, Bülent Ecevit the secretary general of the party who had the support of İsmet İnönü began to challenge his authority in the party. Turhan Feyzioğlu struggled against Ecevit’s slogan "left of center" (Turkish: ortanın solu).
On 12 May 1967 Turhan Feyzioğlu and his 47 followers in the parliamentary group broke away from CHP to form a new party named Reliance Party.[3] Feyzioğlu became the chairman of the new party. On 29 January 1971, the party was renamed as National Reliance Party and on 4 May 1973, Republican Party, another party also issued from CHP, merged to Nationalistic Reliance Party.[3] After merging, the party was renamed as Republican Reliance Party. Turhan Feyzioğlu continued as the chairman of Republican Reliance Party.
Republican Reliance Party continued up to 1980 and Turhan Feyzioğlu continued to be an MP from Kayseri Province. Although his party was losing support, Feyzioğlu served two times as deputy prime minister in coalition governments; in 1975 in Süleyman Demirel's cabinet and in 1978 Bülent Ecevit’s cabinet.[2] (Cabinet Demirel IV and Cabinet Ecevit III)
Turhan Feyzioğlu married to Leyla Cıngıllıoğlu. Their daughter Saide (1950-1969) married Mehmet Buçukoğlu, but she died two hours after bearing a son, Metin, on 7 July 1969. Metin was adopted by his grandparents and took the surname Feyzioğlu. He became a professor of criminal law and was elected President of Turkish Union of Bar Associations in May 2013.[4] [5]
After 1980 he abandoned politics.[1] Turhan Feyzioğlu died at the age of 66 in Ankara on 24 March 1988.
The following is the list of Feyzioğlu's books. Five of them are in Turkish and one in French.