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Orhan Alp
Orhan Alp
Ministry of Public Works
	In office; 20 February 1965 – 27 October 1965
Prime Minister	Suat Hayri Ürgüplü
Preceded by	Arif Hikmet Onat
Succeeded by	Ethem Erdinç
Ministry of Public Works
	In office; 3 April 1967 – 3 November 1969
Prime Minister	Süleyman Demirel
Preceded by	Ethem Erdinç
Succeeded by	Yaşar Gülez
Minister of Industry
	In office; 5 January 1978 – 12 November 1979
Prime Minister	Bülent Ecevit
Preceded by	Oğuzhan Asiltürk
Succeeded by	Kemal Bayar
Personal details
Born	1919; Isparta, Ottoman Empire
Died	January 21, 2010 (aged 90–91); Ankara, Turkey
Party	Justice Party (AP)
Education	Mechanical engineering
Alma mater	Technische Universität Berlin
Occupation	Civil servant, politician
Profession	Mechanical engineer

Orhan Alp (1919 – 21 January 2010) was a Turkish mechanical engineer, politician and former government minister.

Orhan Alp was born in Isparta, Ottoman Empire in 1919. He graduated from Technische Universität Berlin. Between 1942 and 1964 he served in the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). In 1964, he resigned from the TCDD, and briefly served in the Middle East Technical University as a lecturer.^[1]

Political career

Alp joined the Justice Party (AP). Although he was not a parliament member in 1965, he was appointed as the Minister of Public Works in the 29th government of Turkey on 20 February 1965, and served until 27 October 1965.^[2] In the 1965 general election, he was elected into the 13th Parliament of Turkey as a deputy from Ankara Province. Following a government reshuffle, he was reappointed as the Minister of Public Works in the 30th government of Turkey on 3 April 1967, and served until 3 November 1969.^[3]

In the 1973 and the 1977 general elections, he was reelected into the 15th and the 16th Parliament of Turkey. But in 1977, he resigned from the Justice Party, and continued as an independent parliament member. In the 42nd government of Turkey, he served as the Minister of Industry, between 5 January 1978 and 12 November 1979.^[4]

He died in Ankara on 21 January 2010.