Béla Turi-Kovács

Béla Turi-Kovács (2 December 1935 – 3 November 2023) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Environment between 2000 and 2002.

[1] He was the Father of the House (oldest sitting MP) from 2014 thus he opened the inaugural sessions of the National Assembly in 2014, 2018 and 2022.

Béla Turi-Kovács was born in Endrőd, Hungary on 2 December 1935.

[2] In 1956 he was a member of the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party.

Turi-Kovács died on 3 November 2023, at the age of 87.