Background
Sezer, Ahmet Necdet was born on September 13, 1941 in Afyon.
Sezer, Ahmet Necdet was born on September 13, 1941 in Afyon.
He studied in Afyonkarahisar High School. It is school which was finished by his predecessor on a post of the president S. Demirel.
LMA, University Ankara, 1962. Master of Laws, University Ankara, 1978. Military service, Land Forces Academy.
Ahmet Sezer began his professional career with a post of the assistant judge in Ankara, but soon he was drafted into the military service where he served in division at the Academy of land armed forces. Ahmet Sezer's further destiny is closely connected with his profession; after the army he was a judge in small town Dicle, then he became a member of the investigating team of the Court of Cassation of Turkey. In 1977-1978 graduated from the post-graduate studies of the Ankara University Faculty of Law and received a degree of the Master of Civil Law. On March 7, 1983 he was elected as a member of judicial committee to the High Court of Appeals of Turkey.
On September 27, 1988 the president of Turkey Evren (who made a military takeover in 1980) appointed Ahmet Sezer the judge of the Constitutional court, which a promising lawyer headed in incomplete 10 years (January, 1998).
On May 5, 2000 the Grand National Assembly (the parliament) of Turkey elected Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the tenth president of the Republic of Turkey.
During the first months of presidency Ahmet Sezer managed to restrain inflation, to use market mechanisms of regulation of economy, to reduce the degree of the state interference in lieutenant
In his first speech in the parliament Sezer declared that he would follow the policy of great Ataturk (the first president and the founder of Turkish Republic) directed on renovation and democratization of the country.
And he has already managed to do much in this direction. It is abolition of capital punishment, considerable expansion of the rights and freedoms of citizens and also national minorities, equalization of the rights of men and women. At the initiative of Sezer who is a supporter of denationalization of economy, privatization of big banks, the fuel and energy companies and transport. There is decrease in the inflation rate in the country.
Sezer rejected extra safeguard, forbade police to block streets in Ankara when his cortege is going and declared that he does not need two armoured limousines which went to him after his predecessor.
The President could gain the reputation of an incorruptible official and as a rule shows self-control and ability to be low-observable though in case of need he can display principle stand and even courage and can be sharp and straightforward.
Analysts mark at it propensity to exaggerate achievements of Turkey on the way to democratization and to offer its experience as a standard for other countries.
Sezer is considered to a person who does not always clearly orientate in the international situation. But he actively supports the policy ran by the government that is directed on the entry of Turkey in the European Union.
The president is a staunch supporter of the unitary system of Turkey and he opposes Kurd separatism.
Married Semra Sezer; 3 children.
