Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey (died 1993)

Tekin Arıburun

Turkish Senator and Army general

Mehmet Tekin Arıburun was a Turkish soldier and statesman. He was born in then-Ottoman territory of Ishtib, Kosovo Vilayet. He was the last (Acting) President to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey.

List of presidents of Turkey

The following is a complete list of people who held the office of President of Turkey. There have been twelve heads of state since the inception of the republican period in 1923, following the Turkish War of Independence. For a list of rulers of the predecessor Ottoman Empire,…