Hikmet Sami Türk (born 1935 in Of, Trabzon[1]) is a Turkish academic and politician.
[2] Türk graduated from the Kabataş Erkek Lisesi, and then from Istanbul University's Law Faculty in 1958.
Returning to Turkey he completed his military service and then joined the faculty of Ankara University in 1967, becoming a full professor in the law faculty in 1978, and teaching there until 1995.
[4] In 2009 he survived an attempt to assassinate him at Bilkent University, when a suicide-bomber's bomb failed to detonate.
[5][6] Turk assumed the attack was in retaliation on his approval of the new high security prisons in Turkey in 2000.