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Leyla Yeniay Köseoğlu

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Leyla Yeniay Köseoğlu
Member of the 17th Parliament
for Istanbul
In office
6 November 1983 – 29 November 1987
Member of the 18th Parliament
for Istanbul
In office
29 November 1987 – 20 October 1991
Member of the 19th Parliament
for Istanbul
In office
6 November 1991 – 24 December 1995
Personal details
Born
Leyla Yeniay

1926
Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey
Died19 May 2002(2002-05-19) (aged 75–76)
Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey
Political partyMotherland Party ANAP
Children2
OccupationPolitician

Leyla Yeniay Köseoğlu (née Yeniay, 1926 – 19 May 2002) was a Turkish politician. She served three terms in the parliament.

Politician career

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She co-founded Motherland Party (Turkish: Anavatan Partisi, ANAP) in 1983, when political parties were allowed after the junta of the 1980 coup d'état banned all parties.[1]

She ran for the Deputy of Istanbul in the 1983 general election, and entered the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. She served in the 17th Parliament until 1987. She continued her political career in the 1987 general election and served in the 18th Parliament. In 1991, she took part at the general election and served the last time in the parliament until 1995.[2]

Personal life

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Leyla Yeniay was born to Abdi Yeniay and Afife in Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey in 1926.[2] Her grandfather Hacı Bekir Efendi, originated from AKşekir, was the Deputy of Konya in the first and second term of the First Parliament in the 1920s.[3] She completed her education at Arnavutkoey American High School for Girls in Istanbul.[2]

She worked as a merchant and exporter.[2]

She gave birth to two sons, AHmet and Mustafa Köseoğlu.[1]

In 1999, she was sentenced to one year, three months imprisonment and 4.5 million Turkish lira (around 9 US$) fine for breaking the Forest Law by cutting down trees as the chair of a house building cooperative. The imprisonment was postponed.[4]

LeylaYeniay Köseoğlu died from heart attack in Bodrum, Muğla on 19 May 2002. Her body was transferred to Istanbul and was buried in the family grave at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery following the religious service held at Şişli Mosque two days later.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Şeref, Dinçer (21 May 2002). "Leyla Köseoğlu toprağa verildi". Milliyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Leyla Yeniay Köseoğlu" (in Turkish). Vekillerimiz. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Leyla Yeniay Köseoğlu" (in Turkish). Biyografi. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Ağaç kıyım cezası". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 7 November 1999. Retrieved 8 February 2024.