İdris Küçükömer

[2] In 1958 he became an associate professor in the same institution following the completion of his thesis which dealt with economic wealth, social preferences and planning of them.

[3] Küçükömer began to publish articles in Yön magazine shortly after its launch in 1961 and also, joined the Workers' Party of Turkey becoming a member of its scientific/academic committee.

[4] In 1983 Küçükömer joined the Social Democracy Party headed by Erdal İnönü[3] and became a regular contributor of the weekly leftist magazine Yeni Gündem.

[2] He maintained that the civil society cannot be improved in Turkey due to Kemalists' centralized state concept and practices.

[8] This view was also shared by Murat Belge and Ahmet İnsel who all adopted a liberal political stance with a socialist approach.

[10] Küçükömer is the author of various books of which the most influential one is Batılılaşma ve Düzenin Yabancılaşması (Turkish: Westernization and the Alienation of the State/Social Order) published in 1969.

[3] Can Yücel, a Turkish poet, dedicated a poem entitled İdris'in Şu İşi (That act of İdris) to Küçükömer after his death.