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okhady · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 15 Location: ANKARA

In my opinion,the best candidate for this crucial position is the fromer Chief of General Staff Org. Hilmi ÖZKÖK.I am sure he could carry out this duty very well.

Emrahg · Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 339

My candidate is Mr. Hikmet Cetin who is currently NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, he is a respected and prestigous person both in Turkey and in World, has a social democrat politic carier and has kurdish heritage. He is a civillian person and prooved his loyality to democrasy in the past, he has skills in diplomacy. His presidency would carry a lot of good message at the same time.

Hikmet Çetin

Mr Hikmet Çetin was born in 1937 in Diyarbakýr, Turkey. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Ankara, with a B.A. degree in economics and finance in 1960. After his graduation, he joined the State Planning Organization (SPO) in 1960. Mr Çetin conducted further studies, mostly in the USA and received his M.A. degree with a thesis on “Economics of Development”. Later on, he worked on “planning models” at Stanford University, California, USA. In the SPO, he assumed the position of Head of Economic Planning Department until 1977.

His political career started after his election to the Parliament in 1977 as a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP). He was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister in 1978. In 1997, he was re-elected to the Parliament from the Social Democratic People’s Party (SHP). Minister Çetin worked at various executive levels within SHP, including the post of the Secretary General. In 1991, he was re-elected to the Parliament and then served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the two coalition Governments between 1991 and 1994.

At the merger of CHP and SHP under the name of CHP, he was elected as the Chairman of CHP by the Joint Convention of both Parties. He was once again appointed as the Minister of State and Deputy Prime Minister in 1995.

In the 1995 general elections, Minister Çetin retook his seat in the Parliament and was elected as the Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) in October 1997.

On 19 November 2003, he was appointed as the NATO Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) for Afghanistan and has been serving in Kabul since 26 January 2004.

mulkiyeli-since1859 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Ottoman Lands

Your candidate are rubbish. Because you wont decide who president is.
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Spirit of Mulkiye

ömer faruk · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 47 Location: istanbul

Mülkiyeli you are right. ....
:) see you

OttomanGrandchild · Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 19 Location: Turkey

hi everybody
this candidate is rubbish like mülkiyeli saying.. I think election is not important now because we dont have any intelligent and patriot candidate of minister. whole minister who are government of Turkey,my perfect and wonderful country, sold themselves and make saying of usa.
and we must enter north ýraq for me because ý think that we have right than usa. I dont know that am ý wrong.
good bye ý wait your answer or question...

ömer faruk · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 47 Location: istanbul

i think we should wait the election to go in to nothern ýraq because if we choose the way of invading the nothern ýraq before the elections, some people will say that there is a war and it is not time to conduct the elections. So this can cause a caos in this beautiful country and we dont want it to be.