Ferit Melen

Ferit Sadi Melen (2 November 1906 – 3 September 1988) was a Turkish civil servant, politician and Prime Minister of Turkey.

Ferit Melen entered the state service right after his graduation, and was sent to Paris, France, for an internship at the Ministry of Finance there.

Ferit Melen entered politics as a deputy from Van Province from the Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP) following the 1950 general election.

Ferit Melen was minister of finance in the two cabinets of İsmet İnönü between 25 June 1962 and 20 February 1965 in the 27th and 28th governments without affiliation to the parliament.

[1] In 2002, his son Mithat Melen, a former high ranked civil servant and academic, tried to enter politics with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Finance Minister Melen with U.S. President John F. Kennedy , Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ekrem Alican and Turkish ambassador Turgut Menemencioğlu in White House , Washington, D.C.