Erdal İnönü was a Turkish theoretical physicist and politician who served as the interim prime minister of Turkey between 16 May and 25 June 1993. He also served as the deputy prime minister of Turkey from 1991 to 1993 and as the minister of foreign affairs from March to October 1995. He served as the leader of the Social Democracy Party (SODEP) from 1983 to 1985 and later the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) from 1986 to 1993. He was the son of the second president of Turkey, İsmet İnönü.
Inönü in 1941
The İnönü family from left to right: Mevhibe, Ömer, Özden (later Toker), Erdal, and İsmet.
From left to right: Galip Demirağ (son of Nuri Demirağ), Ömer İnönü, Nuri Demirağ, Erdal İnönü, unknown, Mehmet Kum (a student of the School of Engineering), 1941
1991 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 20 October 1991, to elect members to the 19th Grand National Assembly. It was the first by the ruling Motherland Party to be contested without its founding leader, Turgut Özal, who had become Turkish president two years previously. The result was a swing against Özal's former party in favour of its fierce centre-right rival, the True Path Party led by Süleyman Demirel. The vote saw two additional parties cross the 10 percent barrier to enter parliament. Necmettin Erbakan and his Welfare Party saw a party of religious background returned for the first time in 14 years. Welfare had a greatly increased share of the vote and took several key provinces, including Istanbul in 1994 local elections. Bülent Ecevit's Democratic Left Party also scraped through to win seven seats. Voter turnout was 83.9%.
Image: Suleyman Demirel 1998 (cropped)
Image: Mesut Yilmaz as Turkish Prime Minister
Image: Necmettin Erbakan
Image: Bülent Ecevit Davos 2000 cropped