Yekta Güngör Özden (born 1932) is a Turkish judge, and former president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey.
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He was born in Niksar, a town in Tokat province of Turkey, in 1932. He was the president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey,[1] from May 8, 1991 until May 8, 1995, and from May 25, 1995 until January 1, 1998, when he retired.[2] He also was the head of "Atatürkçü Düşünce Derneği" (ADD),[1] a leading Turkish non-governmental organization, that has organized Republic Protests, a peaceful mass rally of more than 300,000 people, in Ankara, on April 14-15, 2007.
Recently, he was implicated in the Ergenekon scandal, for allegedly being a CIA agent.[3] The journalist who made the accusation, Zihni Çakır, has been detained on charges of acquiring state secrets and fraudulent bankruptcy.
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