Fethi Okyar

Fethi Okyar (* 1881 in Pirlepe; † May 7, 1943 in Ankara, to 1934: Ali Fethi Bey ) was a Turkish politician and temporarily Prime Minister of his country.

In 1913 the Young Turk Fethi Bey Ambassador to Bulgaria, his military attaché was Mustafa Kemal, who by the National Assembly of Turkey was given the surname Atatürk later. In the same decade, he held the post of General Secretary of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress.

In October 1922 Fethi was Turkish Interior Minister. From August 14th to October 27th, 1923 Fethi was the first time a Turkish prime minister. A few days after his resignation, he was elected chairman of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, ie President of the Parliament, was elected. He succeeds Kemal, who was president.

Fethi - as a member of the ruling Kemalist Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi short CHP ( dt: Republican People's Party ) - was dated 22 November 1924 to 2 March 1925, a second time Prime Minister of Turkey. He loosened his party colleague İsmet İnönü from the office because his more moderate occurrence should mitigate the criticism of the radical nature of the reforms undertaken and the person İnönüs. After the continued existence of criticism and military suppression of the Kurdish Sheikh Said rebellion in February 1925 İnönü was on 3 March Prime Minister again; this eventually banned in June 1925, the only opposition party that Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası ( dt: Progressive Republican Party ).

From 1925 to 1930, Fethi ambassador in Paris. As a confidant of President Ataturk Fethi founded in August 1930, the party Serbest Cumhuriyet Firkasi ( dt: Free Republican Party ), whose task should be to include opposition voices to the existing de facto one-party system and to integrate into the system. After a few months you took from this trial spacing and dissolved the party again. Subsequently, he was again a member of the CHP.

1934 Law on the Turkish National Assembly a law for the introduction of surnames. For Ataturk many name suggestions were available, with the deputies of the Turkish people for Atatürk decided. Fethi Bey decided to use the family name Okyar.