Osman Bölükbaşı (1913 – February 6, 2002) was a Turkish politician and political party leader.
[1][2][3] Returned home in 1938, Bölükbaşı began working as assistant to Fatin Gökmen at the Kandilli Observatory in Istanbul.
[1][2][3] Bölükbaşı entered the parliament representing his hometown Kırşehir as the only deputy of his party following the 1950 general elections.
[1][3] In the 1957 general elections, he secured a seat in the parliament along with other three party colleagues from the CMP.
Because still imprisoned, he took the required oath of office at the Tenth Ward of the Ankara Central Prison in pajamas before the inmates.
On September 9, 1973, Bölükbaşı resigned from his post as the deputy of Ankara, he was holding since 1961, and left active politics five weeks before the 1973 general elections.
[1][3] Osman Bölükbaşı was a man of action and full of spirits, who won the sympathy of broad masses for his openness, straightforwardness, honesty, rhetoric, quick-wittedness and temperament.
[1][2] Osman Bölükbaşı died of respiratory failure at the university hospital in Ankara on February 6, 2002, and was laid to rest two days later at the Cebeci Asri Cemetery following a memorial ceremony held at the parliament building and later a religious funeral service at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara.