Şükrü Kaya

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Şükrü Kaya
Hasan Fehmi (Ataç)
Mayor and Governor of Izmir
In office
1922–1924
Personal details
Born9 March 1883
Istanköy, Ottoman Empire
Died10 January 1959(1959-01-10) (aged 75)
Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Alma materGalatasaray High School, Istanbul University Faculty of Law, University of Paris
ProfessionJurist
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Şükrü Kaya (9 March 1883

Minister of Foreign affairs in several governments. He is one of the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide.[3]

Biography

Şükrü Kaya in the 1920s

Born in

the Dodecanese in the then Ottoman Empire, he finished Galatasaray High School before he graduated from Law School in 1908. He did his graduate work in Paris, France
. He worked as inspector of treasury for the Empire.

At the start of World War I, Şükrü was appointed the Director of Settlement of Tribes and Migrants (Aşair ve Muhacirin Genel Müdürü), a subdivision within the Interior Ministry, and mainly tasked with managing the Armenian deportations during the Armenian genocide. In September 1915, he was transferred to Aleppo, an important location along the deportation route into the Syrian desert.[4]

While the Armenian Genocide was underway, Şükrü was tasked to administrate the concentration camps of Armenian deportees located in Syria. In order to manage the large influx of Armenians into the area, Şükrü started a policy that enforced a certain ratio of Armenians to be left untouched. However, once the Armenians exceeded this ratio, they were evacuated from their camps and subsequently massacred.[5] On 19 December 1915, Şükrü is noted to have said to German engineer Bastendorff the following:[5]

The final solution is the termination of the Armenian race. Clashes that have continued between Armenians and Muslims all along have now reached their final stage. The weaker side will be destroyed.

He was then assigned to Iraq but he resigned and moved to İzmir.

He worked as a teacher in

the Entente powers, he was arrested by the British administration and was exiled to Malta. He escaped to the continent from Malta and subsequently went to Anatolia and joined the Turkish War of Independence
.

In September 1925 he was a member of the Reform Council for the Reform of the East (Turkish: Şark İslahat Encümeni)[6] which prepared the Report for Reform in the East (Turkish: Şark İslahat Raporu).[7][8] In 1930 he was the author of the outlines of Turkification (Turkish: Türkleştirme Genelgesi). Non-Turkish languages should be suppressed and non-Turkish names of locations changed to Turkish ones.[7]

Şükrü Kaya served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Interior Minister in several cabinets between 1924 and 1938.

He died on 10 January 1959, in Istanbul.

References

  1. ^ "Anka Enstitüsü". 15 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Index Ka".
  3. ISBN 978-0-85771-930-0
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  4. ISBN 978-1412843416
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  5. ^ a b Polatel, Mehmet (27 March 2015). "Social engineer: Şükrü Kaya". Agos.
  6. ISSN 1773-0546
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  7. ^
    ISBN 978-1-315-46296-7
    .
  8. ISBN 978-1-317-23798-3
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Political offices
Preceded by
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey

21 November 1924–4 March 1925 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Interior of Turkey
1 November 1927–11 November 1938 		Succeeded by
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