Background
Hilmi İşgüzar was born to Mehmet İşgüzar and his wife Havva in 1929.
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Hilmi Isguzar
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He was educated in Forestry and Law at Ankara University.
Career
He earned a master"s degree from the School of Forestry and Water at Nancy-Université in France. He worked as a lawyer before he entered politics. In the 1977 general election, he entered the parliament as deputy of Sinop Province from Justice Party (Associated Press).
In December 1977, he left Justice Party along with eleven party members to enter the coalition cabinet of Bülent Ecevit as Minister of Social Security on January 5, 1978.
Following allegations of corruption and a motion of no confidence against him accepted in the parliament, he resigned on June 7, 1979. After the 1980 Turkish coup d"état, he was accused of damaging the state social security corporations Sosyal Sigortalar Kurumu and Bağkur through corruption in office by nepotism, fraud, bestowing privilege, influence peddling, misfeasance and affording advantage.
On February 2, 1981, the military junta sent him and 54 co-workers before the Constitutional Court of Turkey (Turkish: Yüce Divan) for trial. The trial lasted from March 26, 1981 to April 12, 1982.
The supreme court convicted Hilmi İşgüzar on April 13, 1982, to nine years and eight months in prison, of which five years in penal servitude, fined to 5,251,600 Turkish lira and banned from employment by state.
He served his sentence in Burdur Prison until his release in 1985.
Politics
Hilmi İşgüzar joined Nation Party (Member of Parliament) led by Osman Bölükbaşı and elected in the 1965 general election into the parliament representing Sinop Province.
