Müsteşar

A retired undersecretary and ambassador who was in the wheelhouse of the Ministry of Finance for more than six years during the stormy period in the 1980s, when the January 24 Decisions, the most radical economic move in the history of the Republic, were taken, the September 12 Coup took place, and the Turkish economy steered towards liberalization. and MP: Ertuğrul Kumcuoğlu.

He lived through the 1980s, which had a deep and direct impact on the shaping of today's Turkey; Kumcuoğlu, who worked closely with the most important figures of Turkish political history such as Süleyman Demirel, Kenan Evren and Turgut Özal, and therefore witnessed first-hand 'national affairs', was born and raised in a small Western Anatolian town, and devoted almost all of his upbringing to public service. Fifty years of life history is actually our life story.

So what else is in this story? Memories from his father, Yusuf Ziya Bey, a veteran of the First World War and the War of Independence, and other elders, the nakedness of the situation of Anatolia and especially the Aegean at that time, the years of civil service, the Menderes period that ended with the coup of May 27, 1960, which he witnessed personally, and America. and his life in Switzerland, his memories and impressions of the 1970s...

Undersecretary ; A panorama of Turkey with a very delicious style, which discusses the political, economic and cultural climate of the periods it covers, and conveys the facts that should not be forgotten in order to understand the past and the present as we progress from the foundation of the Republic to the end of the 1980s...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish