Kamer Genç | |
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| Deputy of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey | |
| In office 14 December 1987 – 7 June 2015 | |
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| Born | (1940-02-23)February 23, 1940 Nazımiye,Tunceli,Turkey |
| Died | January 22, 2016(2016-01-22) (aged 75) Istanbul,Turkey |
Kamer Genç (February 23, 1940 – January 22, 2016) was a Turkish politician, elected amember ofparliament for theRepublican People's Party in the1987 and1991 elections, for theTrue Path Party in the1995 and1999 elections, as an independent candidate in the2007 elections, returning to the Republican People's Party on 1 June 2010, for which he was reelected in the2011 elections.
Genç was born in 1940 in Ramazanköy, a village inNazımiye inTunceli Province. Raised in anAlevi family, as a young man he spent summers with his father, Ali Genç, in Silahtarağa,Istanbul doing manual labor.
He was a successful student, and in 1960 he was accepted as a boarder at the Financial School inAnkara. However, when the school was closed for repairs, he had to continue his education at Tunceli High School for a time. Afterward he returned to the Financial School.
When his brother Hıdır was dying of measles, Kamer went to work with his father. In 1966, he graduated from Ankara Financial and Commercial Science Academy (now the Economic and Managerial Sciences branch ofGazi University). When he finished school, he began an internship at theMinistry of Finance and was appointed as a tax official inBingöl.[1]
In 1966 he was the only candidate to pass the State Council(citation required) (the highest Turkish administrative court) Exam. He lived inParis from 1974 to 1976. He served in the State Council Enquiry Judgeship and the Office of the Attorney General. After the1980 Turkish coup d'état, he left the State Council and was elected to theTunceli City Council.
In 1983 the newly returned Genç participated actively in party life and, deciding to go into politics, chose to run as an independent candidate fromTunceli. However, his candidacy was rejected by the city council. From 1983 to 1987 he served as a public accountant. After he was elected a member of parliament for four terms. From 1993 to 1999 and between 2001 and 2002 he served asdeputy speaker of theTurkish Grand National Assembly. Afterward, in the2002 Turkish general election, he ran under theTrue Path Party, and thus was not reelected to parliament. He joined the2007 elections as an independent and was elected. On June first, 2010, he returned to his former party, theRepublican People's Party, for which he was reelected in 2011. He served as a member of parliament until the 2015 elections.[2]
In 1966, when he returned to his village after passing the State Council exam, he requested permission to marry Sevim Genç, whom he'd known since primary school and studied with in Tunceli High School, from her family. However, her wealthy landlord father didn't think even the new judge was worthy of his daughter. Sevim was studying in Solfasol village, and opposed her father to accept the proposal. Kamer and Sevim have two children, Seçkin and Seçil.[3] He died in İstanbul in 2016.
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