Cahit Talas

Talas was born in Trabzon, Ottoman Empire, in 1917. After his secondary education he started his university education at the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University in 1935 and graduated in 1938.{{cite journal|author=Alpaslan Işıklı|issue=12 Talas restarted his doctorate studies in 1943 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva in 1947. The title of his thesis was La Legislation du Travail Industriel en Turquie (). Talas reported later that Anthony Babel and Edgard Milhaud, his professors at the University of Geneva, affected his selection of this topic. ==Career and activities==

Talas worked at the Ministry of Finance and then at the Ministry of Labor where he worked as research council rapporteur until 1953 when he joined the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University. Talas was named as the minister of labor to the first cabinet of President Cemal Gürsel announced on 28 May 1960. He was among the contributors of the Forum magazine.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Özlem Kırlı Baydur|title=Forum Dergisi|date=16 January 2024 For Talas the goal of the 1960 coup was to reestablish social justice in order to transform the Turkish society.{{cite thesis ==Death==

Talas died of heart failure at his home in Ankara on 14 October 2006. After the ceremony at the Faculty of Political Sciences and funeral prayers in the Kocatepe Mosque he was buried in the Karşıyaka Cemetery on 17 October. ==Legacy==

An annual prize in social politics was inaugurated by the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University in 2012 in memory of Cahit Talas. ==References==