Esat Sagay

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Esat Sagay in the 1930s

Mehmet Esat Sagay (* 1874 in Karaferye, today Veria , † May 22, 1938 in Ankara ) was a Turkish officer and politician. He was a member of the Turkish National Assembly from 1926 to 1938 and his country's minister of education from 1930 to 1932.

Life

Sagay was born in Karaferye near Thessaloniki , which at that time belonged to the Ottoman Empire , as the son of Yusuf Bey. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1894 and then served in Syria until 1898 . After returning to Istanbul , he became an instructor at the military academy. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , who later founded the Republic of Turkey, was one of his students . During the First World War he served in the Battle of Gallipoli . In 1919, Sagay was retired with the rank of Colonel .

Sagay became a member of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) in 1927 and was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as a member of the Bursa Province . In the 6th and 7th Governments of Turkey he was Minister of Education under Ismet Inönü from September 1930.

Even though the conservative Sagay enjoyed a high reputation in the cabinet as Ataturk's former teacher, he was severely criticized several times by the MP Reşit Galip . Therefore he retired on September 19, 1932 and Galip took over the office of Minister of Education. Esat Sagay remained a member of parliament even after the parliamentary elections in 1935 and died in 1938.

In 2012 the autobiography of Sagay: Hocam - Maarif Vekili Esat Sagay'ın Hatıraları was published .

literature

  • Esat Sagay: Hocam - Maarif Vekili Esat Sagay'ın Hatıraları . Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul 2012, ISBN 978-9750822582

Web links

Commons : Esat Sagay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 6th Government of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on May 22, 2018 (Turkish)
  2. ↑ 7th Government of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on May 22, 2018 (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Sagay, Esat , Bursa Gazeteciler Cemiyeti, accessed May 22, 2018 (Turkish)
personal data
SURNAME Sagay, Esat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sagay, Mehmet Esat (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Veria
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1938
Place of death Ankara