Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda

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Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda (1925)

Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda (born November 29, 1881 in Yanya ( Ottoman Empire today Greece ), † November 1, 1957 in Erenköy, Kadıköy district , Istanbul ) was a politician and civil servant in the Ottoman Empire and in the Republic of Turkey . He was of Albanian origin and was one of those responsible for the Armenian genocide .

Life

He was born the son of the local notable Rendazâde Aslan Efendi and graduated from high school in Yanya and Istanbul. On July 25, 1903, he graduated from the Istanbul Administration College. His professional career began when Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyit Refiki joined the Agricultural Bank . On October 27, 1903, he was appointed high school teacher for mathematics, geometry, agriculture, health and French at the high school of Rhodes. On August 11, 1904, Abdülhalik was appointed as a civil servant ( Maiyet Memurluğu ) in the Vilayet Dschesair . On March 11, 1906 he was appointed district administrator of Tepelena , on November 14, 1908 by Pogon and on January 18, 1909 by Delvina . He became Mutasarrıf of Berat twice . After he was district administrator of Kavala , he was appointed to Mutasarrıf of Çamlık on February 4, 1911.

On May 8, 1913 he became Mutasarrıf of Siirt, on December 20, 1914 governor of Bitlis; in his function as governor he carried out the massacre and deportation of the Armenians from Bitlis in the course of the genocide of the Armenians . On October 14, 1915, he became governor of Aleppo , where he contributed to the death marches of Armenian civilians in Der Zor . The German consul in Aleppo, Walter Rossler said that Abdülhalik "worked on the annihilation of the Armenians with great energy." In his statement to the Mazhar commission boasted Abdülhalik that he thousands of people in Muş was burned alive. The general and commander of the Third Army , Vehip Pascha , also reports this.

From April 29, 1917 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior . After the occupation of Aleppo, he was promoted to governor of Bursa on November 18, 1918. Before he could take up this office, he was removed from office and arrested by the government of Damat Ferid Pascha . Six months later, after the British occupied Istanbul, he was sent to Malta . After his return he was appointed Secretary of State for the Economy on January 4, 1922, Secretary of State of the Interior Ministry on January 20, 1922, and Governor of Konya on April 29, 1922 .

After the liberation of Izmir , Abdülhalik was appointed governor of Izmir on September 19, 1922. On July 30th, he was elected to parliament as a member of the Çankırı Province . On January 2, 1924, he became finance minister in the I. İnönü government. He kept the post also in the II. İnönü government until May 21, 1924. In the III. In the İnönü government he was again Minister of Finance. In the IV and V İnönü governments he was Minister of Defense .

Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda was a member of the Çankırı province from the 2nd to the 8th legislative period of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. From March 1, 1935 to August 5, 1946 he was President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

After his death in 1957 he was buried in the Cebeci Municipal Cemetery .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uğur Üngör : Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property . Continuum International Publishing, 2011, ISBN 1-4411-3055-1 , pp. 7 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c Taner Akçam : From empire to republic: Turkish nationalism and the Armenian genocide . 2. impr. Edition. Zed Books, London 2005, ISBN 1-84277-527-8 , pp. 239-40 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Foreign Office : Turkey, 183, edition. 41, A4215, February 9, 1916
  4. ↑ a b Taner Akçam: A shameful act: the Armenian genocide and the question of Turkish responsibility . 1st Holt pbk. ed.Metropolitan Books / Holt, New York, NY 2007, ISBN 978-0-8050-8665-2 , pp. 363 .
  5. ↑ Foreign Office. Turkey 158, edition. 48, A34435 October 1917
predecessor Office successor
Kâzım Özalp President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
March 1, 1935–5. August 1946 		Kâzım Karabekir
personal data
SURNAME Renda, Mustafa Abdülhalik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman, Turkish civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Yanya
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1957
Place of death Erenköy, Kadıköy County , Istanbul