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Huseyin Rauf Bey

Hüseyin Rauf Orbay ( Ottoman حسين رؤوف Ḥüseyin Ra'ūf ; * July 27, 1881 in İstanbul ; † July 16, 1964 ibid) was an Ottoman naval officer and statesman who was President of the Council of Enforcement Officers in 1922 and 1923 - during the Turkish War of Liberation .

Life

Rauf Orbay's father was Mehmet Muzaffer Pascha. He came from Abkhazia , made admiral and was a member of the Ottoman parliament. The mother, Rüveyde Hanım, came from Crete . Rauf Orbay finished the cadet school in 1899 and then served as an officer in the Ottoman Navy . He was in command of the cruiser Hamidiye during the Balkan War and the Tripoli War . Orbay rose quickly. On October 30, 1918, he signed the Mudros Armistice as Minister of the Navy. When the Turkish Liberation War began, he resigned from his government office and went to Ankara to work with Mustafa Kemal . He was elected to the Representative Committee at the Erzurum Congress on July 23, 1919. At the congress of Sivas on September 4, 1919, he participated as a delegate from Sivas and was elected deputy chairman.

During the war of liberation he was the third " Prime Minister " from July 12, 1922 to August 4, 1923 . In 1924 he was one of the founders of the opposition party Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Progressive Republican Party). When his party was banned in 1925, he went into exile in Europe for ten years. In 1933 he was granted an amnesty and returned in 1935 after initial hesitation. In 1939 he became a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as a MP from Kastamonu .

During the Second World War he was the Turkish ambassador in London from 1942 to 1944 .

Autobiography

• Cehennem Değirmeni ("Windmill de Hell"). Emre Publishing, September 1993

literature

• Up Orbay, Siyasi Hatiralar. Örgün Yayinevi, Istanbul, 2003

Web links

Commons : Rauf Orbay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography (Turkish)
• www.rauforbay.org