Turi Wari ( – 24 April 1987) was a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as a member of the House of Assembly and National Parliament from 1968 until 1977.
Biography Wari was born around 1933 in Ialibu in the Territory of Papua,Members of the Third House of Assembly, p54 and was one of the first people in the area to come into contact with Europeans. As a result, between 1955 and 1968 he worked as an interpreter for the Department of Native Affairs. He married and had seven children.Members of the Second House of Assembly, p15
He contested the Ialibu seat in the 1964 general elections, finishing second to Koitaga Mano, although around 7,000 votes behind. In the 1968 elections Mano transferred to the Kendep-Tambul seat and Wari was elected from the Ialibu constituency.Primary count details in New Guinea election Pacific Islands Monthly, April 1968, p29 He was re-elected from the renamed Ialibu-Pangia constituency in 1972 elections. However, he was heavily defeated in the 1977 elections, receiving just 150 of the 14,000 votes cast in the constituency. Papua New Guinea Election Results 1972 – 2012 Development Policy Centre
He died of cancer in April 1987, survived by two wives and several children.Transitions Pacific Islands Monthly, July 1987, p50
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