Is dead Octavian of the Turkformer president of the Abruzzo region and, previously, vice secretary of the Cgil and then last secretary of the Socialist Party (Psi). He was 79 years old. The news was given by his son Guido with a post on Facebook. “Ciao dad. I loved you. So much. And thank you for letting me stay next to you for 15 years, when the sea went stormy,” wrote his son.
Politician and trade unionist, Del Turco was born in Collelongo, in the province of L’Aquila. He was deputy secretary of the Cgil with Luciano Lama in 1983, last national secretary of the PSI between 1993 and 1994, Minister of Finance in the Amato government (2000-2001), president of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission from 1996 to 2000 and president of the Abruzzo Region (2005-2008). He was also a member of the European Parliament elected on the Ulivo lists.
Marsilio, has traced a path of reformist politics
“I express my most sincere condolences and those of the entire Regional Council to the family and loved ones for the passing of the former President of the Regional Council and former Minister Ottaviano Del Turco. We will carry with us the memory of how, first as a trade unionist, then at the top of the Socialist Party, then in Parliament and in the Government, he traced an important furrow of reformist politics”. Thus the President of the Abruzzo Region, Marco Marsilio.
Condolences from FdI Abruzzo
“On a personal basis and on behalf of the community of Brothers of Italy Abruzzo, we express our condolences for the passing of Ottaviano Del Turco, who held important trade union and political-institutional positions in Abruzzo and the State. Our closeness goes to his loved ones”. Thus, the Abruzzo parliamentarians of Brothers of Italy, Etelwardo Sigismondi, Guido Liris, Guerino Testa and the group leader in the Regional Council, Massimo Verrecchia.