Saffet Arıkan

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Saffet Arıkan (1920s)

Saffet Arıkan (* 1888 in Erzincan ; † November 26, 1947 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish politician and diplomat.

Life

Arıkan graduated from the Military Academy in 1910 . After a short stay in Yemen , he worked at the military headquarters in Istanbul. In 1915 he fought in the Battle of Gallipoli . He then served in Baghdad and Baku. After the First World War, Arıkan joined the Turkish national movement around Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the Turkish Liberation War . Then he was briefly military attaché of the newly founded Turkey in Moscow.

On August 8, 1923, he was elected a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and was re-elected in subsequent legislative terms. Between 1925 and 1931 he was also general secretary of Ataturks Cumhuriyet Ḫalk Fırkası . He was Education Minister in the eighth , ninth and tenth governments of Turkey and defense minister in the twelfth government . Between 1942 and 1944 he was the Turkish ambassador to Germany.

Arıkan is one of the pioneers of the village institutes (Turkish: Köy Enstitüleri ) for the training of teachers. These were devised by the later education minister Hasan Ali Yücel , but their forerunners, the “village trainers” (Turkish: Köy Eğitmeni ), were sent to the villages in 1936 during his term in office.

Saffet Arıkan was president of the influential "Institute for the Turkish Language" ( Türk Dil Kurumu ) from 1935 to 1938 .

Arıkan died in Istanbul on November 26, 1947.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saffet Arıkan , biyografi.net.tr, accessed on May 29, 2018 (Turkish)
  2. ↑ Saffet Arıkan , Biyografya, accessed on May 29, 2018 (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Saffet Arıkan , Biyografi.info, accessed on May 29, 2018 (Turkish)
  4. ↑ Cumhuriyet ve eğitim sevdalısı bir Eğitim Bakanı! , Sözcü, accessed on May 29, 2018 (Turkish)
  5. ↑ Başkanlar , Türk Dil Kurumu , accessed on May 29, 2018 (Turkish)
personal data
SURNAME Arıkan, Saffet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Erzincan
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1947
Place of death Istanbul