Fuat Agralı

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Fuat Ağralı in the 1930s

Ali Fuat Ağralı (* 1877 in Agra , Lesbos , † May 11, 1957 in Izmir ) was a Turkish politician and finance minister of his country.

Life

Fuat Ağralı was born in Agra on the island of Lesbos in 1877 as the son of the accountant Edhem Bey and his wife Fatma Zehra. The Greek island was part of the Ottoman Empire at that time . In 1903 he completed a political science degree at Ankara Üniversitesi and in 1908 a law degree in Istanbul and worked in the provincial administrations, then in the Ministry of Post and Telegraph and in the Ministry of the Navy, then from 1921 in the Ministry of Finance.

During the Turkish Liberation War , Ağralı joined the armed forces of the Turkish resistance. He was a member of the Turkish delegation at the Lausanne treaty negotiations (1922/23). After the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, he was a member of the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the province of Istanbul (1923–1933) and for the province of Elazığ (1933–50). From 1923 to 1927 and from 1931 to 1933 he was also President of the Supreme Audit Office of Turkey.

On February 3, 1934, he was appointed Minister of Finance and was in office until September 13, 1944.

After he had given up the ministerial office, he sat as a simple MP in the National Assembly until the CHP lost the parliamentary elections in 1950 and he was eliminated.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Fuat Ağralı  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Fuat Ağralı , Biyografya, accessed on April 24 (Turkish / English)
  2. a b c Ali Fuat Ağralı , Turkish Court of Auditors, accessed on April 24, 2018 (PDF; Turkish)
  3. 7th Government of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Turkish)
  4. 14th Government of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Turkish)