Şemsettin Günaltay
| Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay | |
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| 8th Prime Minister of Turkey | |
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In office January 16, 1949 – May 22, 1950 |
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| President | İsmet İnönü |
| Preceded by | Hasan Saka |
| Succeeded by | Adnan Menderes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1883 Kemaliye, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | October 19, 1961 (aged 77–78) Istanbul, Turkey |
| Political party | Republican People's Party |
| Alma mater | University of Lausanne |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay (Turkish pronunciation: [ʃemseˈtin ɟynaɫˈtaj]; 1883 – 19 October 1961) was a Turkish historian, politician, and Prime Minister of Turkey from 1949 to 1950.
Günaltay was born 1883 in the Kemaliye town of the Vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Empire. After finishing the Teacher's College, he was educated in physics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
After his return to Turkey, Günaltay worked as a teacher in a number of high schools. During this time, he got to know Ziya Gökalp, a prominent ideologue of Pan-Turkism. Influenced by him, he began to carry out research on Turkish history. In 1914, he was appointed professor of the history of Turks and Islamic tribes at the Faculty of Letters of İstanbul University. Later, he served as the dean of the Faculty of Theology at the same university.
In 1915, Günaltay was elected to the Ottoman Parliament as deputy of Bilecik Province from the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), and remained a member of the parliament until its dissolution. In the meantime, he continued to lecture at the university.
During the Turkish War of Independence, Günaltay joined the "Association of Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia". After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, he entered Turkish Grand National Assembly as deputy of Sivas Province from the Republican People's Party (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP), serving for 27 years until 1950. Between 1950 and 1954, he represented Erzincan Province in the parliament.
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