İsmail Özdağlar (born September 17, 1950) is a Turkish politician and former government minister.
He was accused of allowing shipping of petroleum to a higher cost than usual, and sharing the difference with the shipowner.
As it came to Prime minister Özal's notice, he immediately started a covered investigation by tasking his advisor Adnan Kahveci to bring evidence to him.
On May 15, 1985, 311 of the total 400 deputies of the parliament voted in favor of a proposal to send Özdağlar before the Constitutional Court (Turkish: Yüce Divan) for trial.
The supreme court concluded on February 14, 1986 that İsmail Özdağlar is guilty of malpractice, and sentenced him to two years in prison, a fine of 30,000 Turkish lira, a two-year ban from employment in state service and in addition the payment of trial expenses amounting to 281,410 Turkish lira.
1974),[8] who is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and is married to economist Daron Acemoglu.