Fethi Okyar

Ali Fethi Bey

Fethi Okyar (born April 29, 1880 in Pirlepe , † May 7, 1943 in Ankara ; until 1934: Ali Fethi Bey ) was a Turkish politician and temporarily prime minister of his country.

In 1913 the young Turk Fethi Bey became ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Bulgaria , his military attaché was Mustafa Kemal . In the same decade he held the office of general secretary of the Young Turk Committee for Unity and Progress .

On October 11, 1921, Fethi became Minister of the Interior for the Ankara government. He was Prime Minister of Turkey for the first time from August 14 to October 27, 1923. A few days after his resignation, he was elected Chairman of the Grand National Assembly , that is to say, President of Parliament. He succeeded Kemal, who became president.

Fethi - as a member of the ruling Kemalist Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) - was Prime Minister of Turkey for a second time from November 22, 1924 to March 2, 1925. He replaced his fellow party member İsmet İnönü in office. After the military suppression of the Kurdish Sheikh Said uprising in February 1925, İnönü became Prime Minister again on March 3; this finally banned the only opposition party, the Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası, in June 1925 .

From 1925 to 1930 Fethi was ambassador to Paris . As a confidante of President Ataturk, Fethi founded the Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası party in August 1930 , whose task it was to take up opposition voices to the existing de facto one- party system and to integrate them into the system. After a few months the party was disbanded. Fethi became a member of the CHP again.

In 1934 the Turkish National Assembly passed a law introducing surnames. At the request of President Ataturk, Fethi Bey took on the name Okyar .

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Kreiser: Ataturk. A biography . CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57671-3 , p. 18 .