Mehmet Ali Aybar
Mehmet Ali Aybar | |
|---|---|
| Second president of the Workers' Party of Turkey | |
| In office 1962–1969 | |
| Preceded by | Avni Erakalın |
| Succeeded by | Mehmet Ali Aslan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 October 1908 |
| Died | 10 July 1995 (aged 86) Istanbul, Turkey |
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Mehmet Ali Aybar (pronounced [mehmet aɫi ajbaɾ]; 5 October 1908 – 10 July 1995) was a lawyer, member of the Turkish parliament, the second president of the Workers Party of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye İşçi Partisi or briefly TİP), the founder and President of the Socialist Revolution Party, and a member of the Russell Tribunal against the war crimes of the United States in Vietnam. He is known as one of the most prominent proponents of democratic socialism in Turkish political history.