Okyar cabinet

Okyar cabinet
3. Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Fethi Okyar
choice	June 3, 1923
Appointed by	President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
education	November 22, 1924
The End	March 3, 1925
Duration	0 years and 101 days
predecessor	Cabinet İnönü II
successor	Cabinet İnönü III
composition
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	301/333

The Okyar Cabinet was the third government in Turkey, led by Fethi Okyar from November 22, 1924 to March 3, 1925 .

In the elections in June 1923, only Müdâfaa-i hukuk cemiyetleri was admitted, which was renamed Halk Fırkası in September 1923 (from November 1924 Cumhuriyet Halk Fırkası , from 1935 Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ). After the Sultan's flight, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey passed a constitutional amendment on October 29, 1923, declaring Turkey a republic and the President as head of state. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was elected the first president, and İsmet İnönü was appointed prime minister.

With the escape of the sultan, Abdülmecid II became the new caliph . For Ataturk, however, the caliphate was an obstacle on the way to a modern Turkey and he sparked a discussion about its abolition. In the winter of 1923/24 there was a campaign by supporters of the Caliphate and the House of Osman . The President and the government reacted harshly. An "independence tribunal" was dispatched to warn the press and sentenced the vocal supporters of the caliphate to long imprisonment. With the beginning of the new session of the Turkish National Assembly on March 3, 1924, the MPs passed a law that provided for the abolition of the caliphate and the expulsion of all family members of the Osman dynasty.

After the minority of the "Ottomanists" saw the HF as marginalized, they left the Halk Fırkası and 32 MPs founded the Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası (TCF). Unlike the HF, the TCP also advocated nationalism and secularism , but wanted less centralism and authoritarianism and slower reforms in line with the country's traditions. The popularity of the new party in the country's major cities was so great that Ataturk decided to act quickly: He dismissed İnönü and appointed the liberal Fethi Okyar as the new prime minister.

After Ataturk had banned the Kurdish language in public at the turn of the year 1923/24 and had banished Kurdish leaders to Western Anatolia, a Kurdish uprising broke out in February 1925 under the leadership of Sheikh Said . Ataturk reacted again quickly: He banned the TCP and had the Kurdish uprising put down. Okyar was dismissed and İnönü was again head of government.

government

3rd Government of the Republic of Turkey
Okyar Cabinet - November 22, 1924 to March 3, 1925

title	Surname	Political party	Term of office
Prime Minister and Minister of Defense	Fethi Okyar	CHF
Minister of Justice	Mahmut Esat Bozkurt	CHF
Interior Minister and Minister for Building and Settlement	Recep Peker Cemil Uybadın	CHF	November 22, 1924 - January 5, 1925 January 5, 1925 - March 3, 1925
Foreign minister	Şükrü Kaya	CHF
Finance minister	Abdülhalik Renda	CHF
Minister of Education	Şükrü Saracoğlu	CHF
Minister for Public Works	Fevzi Pirinççioğlu	CHF
Minister of Health	Mahzar Germen	CHF
Minister of Commerce	Ali Cenani	CHF
Minister for Agriculture and Village Affairs	Fehmi Ataç	CHF
Naval Minister	İhsan Eryavuz	CHF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East ), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 3rd Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on May 23, 2018