Mümtaz Soysal's Resume
Birth date and place:
15.09.1929 - Zonguldak (Turkey)
Education:
Galatasaray High School, Ankara University Political Sciences Faculty, Ankara
University Law School.
He also did research at:
Princeton University, 1959-1960
Career:
- Administrational Law
Assistant (1959-1963) and Constitutional Law Professor Assistant (1963-1969)
Ankara University,
- Constitutional Law Professor, Political Sciences Faculty, Ankara University
(1969-1991)
- Member of the Founding Assembly (The
assembly that prepared 1961 Constitution of Republic of Turkey), 1961
- Chair of the Mediterranean Social Research Council, 1970
- Dean of the Political Sciences College, Ankara University, 1971 (Arrested
during 1971 military coup and served 14.5 months in prison)
- Member of the Amnesty International Executive Board (1974 - 1978)
- Vice-chair of the Amnesty International Executive Board (1976 -1978)
- Constitutional advisor of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the Cyprus
negotiations (1978- 1980 and 1988-)
- Member of Turkish Grand National Assembly (1991-1995 and 1995-1999)
- Columnist at Turkey's highly circulated newspapers Milliyet, Hürriyet, and
Cumhuriyet.
Awards:
- First International Human
Rights Education Award given by UNESCO, 1978
- Turkish Development
Foundation Award, 1986
- Distinguished Service Award of Turkey's Foreign Affairs Ministry, 1991
- Officier de l'ordire national de merite, (France), 1991
Languages:
- French, and English.