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Dignitaries pay final respects to Doğramacı
Doğramacı died on Thursday at the age of 95 after months of treatment at Hacettepe University Hospital. Top state and army officials gathered for his funeral ceremony at Ankara’s Kocatepe Mosque on Sunday. Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin, Cabinet ministers, Constitutional Court head Haşım Kılıç, Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, former President Süleyman Demirel, Jordan’s Prince Al Hassan bin Talal, YÖK head Yusuf Özcan and former YÖK head Erdoğan Teziç were among the participants at the funeral ceremony. Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev sent flowers.
Speaking at an earlier ceremony organized at YÖK, Education Minister Nimet Çubukçu said Doğramacı was a leading scholar both in Turkey and in the world on pediatrics and public health with his pioneering and innovative work. “He also imparted an invaluable heritage with his contributions to higher education. What we need to do now is to take him as an example and carry scientific thought further,” Çubukçu said.
Doğramacı was a founder of Bilkent Univeristy, Hacettepe University, the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health in London and served as board of trustees chair and president at Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) and Ankara University.
“We will always remember him with respect and gratitude,” Çubukçu concluded.
“As he was in higher education, Doğramacı was also a leading figure in health services all around the world,” YÖK head Özcan said during the ceremony. Özcan said one of the most important contributions of Doğramacı was to bring university endowment culture to Turkey. Doğramacı was the founding president of YÖK and served in that position from 1981 to 1992.
Meanwhile, northern Iraqi Kurdish administration leader Massoud Barzani and Kurdish administration Prime Minister Bahram Saleh sent four representatives to the funeral ceremony. Doğramacı was born in Arbil in 1915 and was an Iraqi Turkmen pediatric physician, an academic and an international development leader.
He was a member of the board of trustees of Heart International since 1981 and had been the honorary president of the International Pediatric Association (IPA) since 1992.
He signed the World Health Organization (WHO) Constitution in New York in July 1946 and acted as the organization’s vice president in 1976 and was a member of its executive board between 1976 and 1982.
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