Fethi Okyar

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Preceded by	Mehmet Talaat (acting)
Succeeded by	Mustafa Arif
Personal details
Born	Ali Fethi (1880-04-29)29 April 1880 Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars

Ali Fethi Okyar (29 April 1880 – 7 May 1943) was a Turkish diplomat and politician, who also served as a military officer and diplomat during the last decade of the

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Biography

He was born in the

In 1913, he joined the Committee of Union and Progress (İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) and was elected as the secretary general. In 1924 he was appointed Prime Minister as the successor of İsmet İnönü. But only a few months later in March 1925 he was replaced again by İnönü as a more decisive policy was needed to suppress the Sheikh Said rebellion.^[6] Following he was appointed the Turkish ambassador to France in Paris.^[6] In 1930, he received the permission to establish the Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Liberal Republican Party), an early party of opposition.^[7] However, when the government noticed the support of this opposition party among Islamists, it was declared illegal and closed down, a situation similar to that of the Progressive Republican Party, which had lasted for a few months in 1924. He later served as Justice Minister from 1939 to 1941.

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  Atatürk and Okyar, August 1930
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  Okyar in his early days
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  Okyar in the 1930s

References

Bibliography

• Balkaya, İhsan Sabri (2005). Ali Fethi Okyar (29 Nisan 1880-7 Mayıs 1943) (in Turkish) (I. ed.). Ankara: Turkish History Association.
  ISBN 9751617162
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• Çay, Abdulhaluk Mehmet (2009). Başlangıçtan Bugüne Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Hükümetleri (PDF) (in Turkish). Künüçen, Hale. Ankara: Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Culture Portal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
• Güneş, İhsan (August 2012). Özmel Akın, Nur; Güven, Pınar (eds.). Meşrutiyet'ten Cumhuriyet'e Türkiye'de Hükümetler: Programları ve Meclisteki Yankıları (1908-1923) (in Turkish) (I. ed.). Istanbul: Turkey İş Bank Cultural Publications.
  ISBN 9786053606512
  .

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External links

• Works by or about Fethi Okyar at Internet Archive

Political offices
Preceded by Rauf Orbay	Prime Minister of Turkey 14 August 1923 – 23 October 1923	Succeeded by İsmet İnönü
Preceded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey 1 November 1923 – 22 November 1924	Succeeded by Kâzım Özalp
Preceded by İsmet İnönü	Prime Minister of Turkey 22 November 1924 – 3 March 1925	Succeeded by İsmet İnönü
Preceded by Kâzım Özalp	Minister of National Defense 22 November 1924 – 3 March 1925	Succeeded by Recep Peker
Preceded by Tevfik Fikret Sılay	Minister of Justice 27 May 1939 – 13 March 1941	Succeeded by Hasan Menemencioğlu