Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan

Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan was an Ottoman and Turkish teachers for mathematics, geography and calligraphy from Robert College of Istanbul. He was known for the design of the signature of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. Moreover, it was Çerçiyan teacher known Turkish politician.

Life

The Armenian origin Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan was a teacher. He traveled throughout the United States to study the Palmer method, which had gained popularity at this time. He brought this to his students. He returned to Istanbul and was a teacher of mathematics, geography and calligraphy at Robert College. In his 55 - year tenure at the Robert College Çerçiyan taught more than 25,000 students, including future prime minister Bulent Ecevit, the Foreign Minister Selim Sarper, the diplomats Rifat Turgut Menemencioglu and the cabinet ministers Kasseem Gulek.

Atatürk's signature

During the early years of the Turkish Republic is a Latin -based alphabet was introduced to replace the perso - Ottoman alphabet used until then. As part of the reforms Turkish citizens were obliged by Law No 2525 of 21 June 1934 to adopt a family name. But previously used by Turkish citizens of Jewish and Christian religion surname - but not Muslims. Mustafa Kemal Pasha himself also had to take a last name and the Grand National Assembly gave him the surname Atatürk, which means " father of the Turks " means. Many members of Parliament, including many former students of Çerçiyans exercise suggested that Ataturk should adopt a new signature for his name. On a November morning in 1934 this Parliament members presented the proposal Çerçiyan who took on this task. That night, five prepared this morning signatures have been proposed and police officers rallied them. Ataturk chose the one with " K. Atatürk " from.