Hikmet Bayur

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Hikmet Bayur
Minister of National Education
In office
27 October 1933 – 9 July 1934
Preceded byReşit Galip
Succeeded byZeynel Abidin Özmen
Personal details
Born1891
Paris University
OccupationTeacher, Politician

Hikmet Bayur (also known as Yusuf Hikmet Bayur, 1891 – 6 March 1980) was a

Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire
.

Early life

Bayur was born in 1891 in

Paris University (Sorbonne) in 1912.[1] After some years in Paris he returned home to teacher[2] at Galatasaray High School in 1912, remaining there until 1920.[1]

Career

War

During the

Republic

Turkey was proclaimed as the Turkish Republic on 29 October 1923. Bayur was appointed to various embassies and consulates – London (1923–1925), Belgrade (1925–1927) and Kabul (1928) – before becoming Secretary General of the Presidency.

In the general election of 1935, he was elected as the

Atatürk died on 10 November 1938, İsmet İnönü was elected as the new president. Bayur was the only deputy in parliament who opposed İnönü.[4]

Multiparty period

When the

1960 Turkish coup d'etat
, Bayur was arrested and then released in 1963. Following his release from prison, he began a career in journalism and started writing for the newspaper Kudret.

He died in Istanbul on 6 March 1980.

Books

  • 1934: Yeni Türkiye Devletinin Harici Siyaseti ("Foreign Policy of the New Turkish State")
  • 1940: Ahval-i Hazıra ("Circumstances of the Present State")
  • 1940–67: Türk İnkılabı Tarihi ("History of the Turkish Revolution")
  • 1946–50: Hindistan Tarihi ("History of India")
  • 1963: Atatürk, Hayatı ve Eserleri ("Atatürk: His Life and His Works")
  • 1974: XX. Yüzyılda Türklüğün Tarih ve Acun Siyasası Üzerindeki Etkileri ("The Influence of Turkishness on History and Global Politics in the Twentieth Century")

References

  1. ^ a b "Bayur, Yusuf Hikmet". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  2. ^ a b c "Yusuf Hikmet Bayur". Biyografya. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  3. ^ "Turkish parliament page". tbmm.gov.tr. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  4. p.163
  5. ^ i̇Nan, Süleyman. ""Demokrat Parti Dönemi", (Yakın Dönem Türk Politik Tarihi, Anı Yayıncılık Ankara 2008) kitabı içinde | Süleyman İNAN". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-02.