Fikri Sağlar
Fikri Sağlar is a Turkish social democrat politician. He was Minister of Culture in the early 1990s, and a member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the Susurluk scandal. He has been a columnist for Birgün.
In 1983 he was elected deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Populist Party. The SHP merged with the Republican People's Party in the 1990s. Sağlar was a minister both in the 50th and in the 52nd government of Turkey. In 2001 Sağlar resigned from the CHP along with several others, having been referred to a disciplinary board for allegedly working against the CHP's interests. He co-founded the new Social Democratic People's Party in 2002, becoming its Secretary-General. In 2002 he was charged, along with some others, with insulting the government, due to some comments in a television discussion programme.
He is the author of two books, Code Name Susurluk and Contemporary Culture from National to the Global.
