General Debate speaker

Sarper

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Turkey, between 1947 and 1961 — 6,212 words in all. The longest was 1961, at 2,934.

Also recorded as “SARPER” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 3 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.

02,5005,0001947: 1,126 words1950: 2,152 words1961: 2,934 words19471961
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1947 2 not recorded 1,126
1950 5 not recorded 2,152
1961 16 not recorded 2,934

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 5 self determination 3 poverty 1 human rights 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 3 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 Sarper 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.

Where this page comes from