Yusuf Hikmet Bayur

Yusuf Hikmet Bayur , also Yusuf Hikmet Bayur'a Armağan (* 1891 in Istanbul ; † March 6, 1980 ibid), was a Turkish historian, diplomat and politician.

Life

Hikmet Bayur, grandson of Mehmed Kâmil Pascha , graduated from Galatasaray high school and finished his studies at Sorbonne University . He became Director of the Political Committee of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Counselor in London in 1923 , Ambassador in Belgrade in 1925 and in Kabul in 1928 .

From October 27, 1933 to July 8, 1934, he was Education Minister of Turkey. He was also MP for Manisa in the fourth (intermediate election ), fifth , sixth , seventh , tenth and eleventh legislative periods.

Since 1945 he was a professor at Ankara University ; in 1946 he became a member of the Democratic Party . One of his students was the historian Halil İnalcık . In 1948 he founded Millet Partisi as a split from the Democratic Party, which he headed until 1950.

After the genocide of the Armenians , Interior Minister Mustafa Arif Deymer formed a government commission in December 1918 to investigate the events ordered by the Committee for Unity and Progress . On March 18, 1919, the commission found that it believed that 800,000 Armenians perished during the First World War . Yusuf Hikmet Bayur, like other Turkish historians, considered this to be reliable.

He was married and was buried in Edirnekapı Şehitliği after his death in 1980 .

literature

Жуков Е. М .: Советская историческая энциклопедия. . Ed .: «Советская энциклопедия». 1962, p. 193 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Taner Akçam : 1915 efsaneler ve gerçekler. (No longer available online.) Radikal Gazetesi , May 25, 2003, archived from the original on October 15, 2013 ; Retrieved October 15, 2013 .
↑ Taner Akçam: A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility . Metropolitan Books, New York 2007. p. 200

personal data
SURNAME	Bayur, Yusuf Hikmet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bayur'a Armağan, Yusuf Hikmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish historian, diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH	March 6, 1980
Place of death	Istanbul

[1] Taner Akçam : 1915 efsaneler ve gerçekler. (No longer available online.) Radikal Gazetesi , May 25, 2003, archived from the original on October 15, 2013 ; Retrieved October 15, 2013 .

[2] Taner Akçam: A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility . Metropolitan Books, New York 2007. p. 200