Mithat Şükrü Bleda
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Mithat Şükrü Bleda | |
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Member of the Grand National Assembly | |
Constituency | Sivas (1935, 1939, 1943, 1946) |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Constituency | Serres (1908) Drama (1912) Burdur (1914) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1874 Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 1956 Istanbul, Turkey |
Resting place | Monument of Liberty, Istanbul |
Nationality | Turkish |
Political party | Committee of Union and Progress |
Mithat Şükrü Bleda (1874 – 1956) was a Turkish politician, who was a founding member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which he also served as its party secretary.[1][2][3]
Biography[]
Midhat Şükrü was born in Selanik (Thesalonika). After graduating from the civil service academy, he took part in the founding of the Committee of Union and Progress. He served as its general secretary between 1911- 1917. He was also a deputy in the Ottoman parliament, representing Serres, Drama, and Burdur in 1908, 1912, and 1914 respectively. Between 1935 - 1950 he represented Sivas in the Grand National Assembly. He died in Istanbul in 1956, and was buried in the Monument of Liberty upon his will.
His memoirs were published under the title of Bir İmparatorluğun Çöküşü (The Collapse of an Empire), which constitute an important source of the Second Constitutional Era. It was adapted into modern Turkish by his son Turgut Bleda ( , 1979).
References[]
- ^ Erik Jan Zürcher (1984). The Unionist Factor: The Rôle of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926. E.J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-07262-4.
- ^ Erik Jan Zürcher (2017). Turkey: A Modern History. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78453-187-4.
- ^ "Syllabus". www.sabanciuniv.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
External Links[]
https://web.archive.org/web/20160206090417/https://www.tbmm.gov.tr/TBMM_Album/Cilt1/Cilt1.pdf
- 1874 births
- 1956 deaths
- People from Thessaloniki
- Politicians from Thessaloniki
- 20th-century Turkish politicians
- Committee of Union and Progress politicians
- Turkish politician stubs