Product Code Database
Sadun Aren (19 March 1922 – 8 March 2008) was a Turkish academic and politician. He was one of the cofounders of Workers' Party of Turkey and of the leading figures of socialist movement in Turkey.
Aren won a seat in the Parliament for the party representing Istanbul in 1965. Within the party Aren and Behice Boran formed an alliance. They both resigned from the party in 1968 due to their opposition against the views of the party chair Mehmet Ali Aybar. Aybar did not support the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in August 1968.
Immediately after the military coup on 12 March 1971 Aren was arrested and imprisoned for three years in Niğde. He was not allowed to continue his academic work at the university and began to work as an advisor to a trade union, DİSK. He was also imprisoned one year after the military coup on 12 September 1980 and released in 1984.
Aren founded a political party, Socialist Unity Party, in 1991. Following the dissolution of the party he joined Freedom and Solidarity Party and was made the party's honorary chair.
When Aren was a member of the Workers' Party he claimed that the focus should not be exclusively on the theory. He also argued that the clash between socialism and capitalism should be nonviolent due to the changing nature of the economy and that discussions which led to polemics were not useful. Although Aren also did not support the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovia like Mehmet Ali Aybar, he was an ardent critic of Aybar's conceptualization of democratic socialism. Because Aren argued that a non-authoritarian and democratic version of socialism was needed in Turkey. He considered statism as an ideological tool to mobilize the masses.
Aren was one of the opponents of Turkey's association with the European Economic Community on the grounds that it would have negative effects on Turkish industry which was not yet developed.
Personal life and death
Aren married to Munise Hanım on 25 October 1949 with whom he had two children, a daughter and a son. He died in Ankara on 8 March 2008 and buried there on 10 March.
Works and views
Aren is the writer of several books. He published several articles in the newspapers and magazines, including Yön, Forum, Emek, Marksizm ve Gelecek and Politika.
Categories: 20th-century Political Scientists, 20th-century Scholars, 20th-century Turkish Politicians, 21st-century Turkish Politicians, 1922 Births, 2008 Deaths, Ankara University Faculty Of Political Sciences Alumni, Academic Staff Of Ankara University, Deputies Of Istanbul, Turkish Communists, Turkish Political Party Founders, Turkish Political Scientists, Turkish Prisoners And Detainees, Turkish Social Scientists, Workers' Party Of Turkey Politicians
|
|
