DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE BIOGRAPHIES
Hüseyin Avni GÖKTÜRK (1901-1983)
Hüseyin Avni GÖKTÜRK, who was born in Nigde in 1901, graduated from the Faculty
of Law in Istanbul in 1927. He received a master's degree from the Faculty of
Law in Geneva, a doctor's degree from the Faculty of Law in Berlin and then
Hüseyin Avni GÖKTÜRK worked as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Political
Sciences in Ankara and became a professor in 1940. In 1946 he was appointed
as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor. During the period of 1954-1957
he was a Deputy in the Parliament and throughout the same period he was appointed
as Minister of Justice and for a period of five months also as Acting Minister
of Internal Affairs.
At the end of his term as Deputy, Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Avni GÖKTÜRK was appointed
as Director of the National Security Service (MAH) on November 20, 1957 and
remained in this post until July 21, 1959, when he was elected to the Executive
Board of the Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi (Industrial Development Bank).
Between 1966-1975, Hüseyin Avni GÖKTÜRK again joined the Parliament as a Senator
from Nigde and died in 1983.
