Kemal Karpat describes him as part of the "rising professionals" within the early DP leadership.
[2] He graduated from Kabataş High School in 1930 and received a bachelor's degree in medicine from Istanbul University in 1936.
[8] His both terms witnessed significant events, such as Istanbul pogrom and growing tensions with the Republican People's Party followers and other opposition forces.
[2] She joined True Path Party in the 1980s and served at the Turkish parliament representing Aydın.
[12] Namık Gedik committed suicide on 29 May 1960 throwing himself out of a fourth-floor window of the War College, Ankara, where he had been in custody after the military coup of 27 May.