Yusuf Kemal Bey

Yusuf Kemal Bey

Yusuf Kemal Bey (born July 17, 1878 in Boyabat , † April 16, 1969 ) was a Turkish civil servant, politician and lawyer. His maiden name was Yusuf Kemal, according to the naming law from 1934 he took the surname Tengirşenk . Yusuf Kemal Bey was Turkish Minister of Justice, Economy and Foreign Affairs between 1920 and 1931.

Life

Yusuf Kemal was born in Boyabat in 1878 as the son of the judge Hasan Raci Efendi and his wife Fatma Hanım. He first attended the Kuleli Askerî Lisesi , but was unable to pursue a military career due to a hunting accident and then graduated from the military school for medicine in Istanbul , but had to break off this career too. During this time he was arrested by the Ottoman police for disregarding Sultan Abdülhamid II . He was banished to the Fezzan region in what is now Libya ; however, he was soon pardoned because of health problems.

Yusuf Kemal then studied law and graduated from Istanbul University in 1904. He then did his doctorate in political science at the University of Paris and then briefly worked as a lawyer in Istanbul. After the revolution of the Young Turks in 1908 he was briefly a member of parliament and then a high official.

The Turkish and Russian delegations signing the Moscow Treaty

After the First World War he was elected to the Ottoman Parliament and represented the province of Kastamonu there . When the Allies of the First World War dissolved the Ottoman Parliament, he joined the Kemalists around Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara . He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1920. In the first and second councils of enforcement officers, transitional cabinets before the proclamation of the republic, he was Minister of Economics (May 3, 1920 to March 30, 1921). In this capacity he also took part in the negotiations and the signing of the Moscow Treaty in March 1921.

In the second part of the legislative period of the third and fourth council of enforcement officers, he was Foreign Minister (March 30, 1921 to October 26, 1922). In this function he negotiated the 1921 Treaty of Ankara , in which France and Turkey settled the conflict over the occupation of Cilicia . He served as Minister of Justice in the sixth council of enforcement officers (October 27, 1930 to May 5, 1931).

From 1923 Yusuf Kemal Bey was a member of parliament. After his resignation in 1933, he became professor of economics at the Faculty of Law at Ankara Üniversitesi . He became a member of the Democrat Parti , founded in 1946 , but resigned in 1947 and joined Millet Partisi, which had split off from the DP, the following year . He only briefly returned to politics in the early 1960s: after the military coup of 1960 , he sat for the Cumhuriyetçi Köylü Millet Partisi in the constituent assembly of Turkey.

Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk died in 1969.

Web links

Commons : Yusuf Kemal Bey  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography , biyografi.net (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, accessed April 18, 2018 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Millî Mücadele Şahsiyetlerinden Yusuf Kemal Bey (TENGİRŞENK) , TC Başbakanlık Ataturk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Ataturk Araştırma Merkezi Başkanlığı, accessed on April 18, 2018
3. ^ History of the Turkish Cabinets , Prime Minister's Office of Turkey, accessed on April 18, 2018