Halil Menteşe

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Halil Menteşe
Izmir (1935, 1935, 1939, 1943, 1946
)
Personal details
Born1874
Milas, Ottoman Empire
Died1948 (aged 73-74)
NationalityOttoman
Turkish
Political partyUnion and Progress Party

Halil Menteşe (1874–1948) was a Turkish government minister and politician, who was a well known official of the

Republic of Turkey. He was one of the people most directly responsible for the Armenian genocide.[2]

Biography

Halil was born in

Dr. Nazım. With the death of his benefactor, he returned to Turkey in 1898, continuing an uneventful life in Milas until the 1908 revolution. Halil was elected a CUP MP from Menteşe in the general election for the parliament held after the revolution.[5]

He was part of a commission to liquidate

Savior Officers to shutter parliament. In a session of parliament on 25 July, Halil read to the Chamber of Deputies a death threat from the group, announcing that he was going to continue his position in government. The grand vizier Mehmed Said Pasha acquiesced to the Savior officers, resulting in parliament dissolving on 5 August.[5]

With the CUP being persecuted he once again escaped to Paris, but returned to the Ottoman Empire after the

WWI and the fall of Talât Pasha's cabinet.[5]

A special parliamentary committee organized to investigate the causes of the Ottoman Empire joining WWI summoned Halil to questioning several times but nothing could be definitively proved. He was finally arrested on 10 March 1919, and appeared before the Special Military Tribunal that was punishing CUP members and war profiteers. With 78 other politicians and generals he was detained in Malta, being released on 30 April 1921 in a deal made between Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the British to exchange British POWs for the release of the Malta exiles.[5]

Halil supported the

Izmir as an independent MP.[6] He retired to his estate in Milas in 1946, and died on 1 April 1948.[5]

Legacy

Academic Ismail Arar calls Halil a quadrimvir of the Three Pashas clique.

References

  1. ^ "Halil Mentese – the quadrumvir.(Ottoman Empire politician) – Version details". Trove.nla.gov.au. 1 July 1996. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-84277-526-4
    .
  3. ^ "MİLASLI ÜNLÜLÜLER". Milas Bilgi. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012.
  4. ^ TBMM Milletvekilleri Albümü, TBMM Basın ve Halkla İlişkiler Müdürlüğü Yayınları, 2010
  5. ^
    JSTOR 4283809
    .
  6. ISBN 1-85043300-3
    .
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