General Debate speaker

Okcun

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for Turkey, between 1978 and 1979 — 8,778 words in all. The longest was 1978, at 5,104.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 2 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.

05,00010,0001978: 5,104 words1979: 3,674 words19781979
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1978 33 not recorded 5,104
1979 34 not recorded 3,674

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

disarmament 28 detente 27 new economic order 14 apartheid 5 human rights 5 colonialism 3 non aligned 3 self determination 2

Counts of words from a published list across these 2 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Okcun said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

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