Ahmet Ferit Tek
| Ahmet Ferit Tek | |
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Ahmet Ferit Tek (1920s)
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| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 17 July 1920 – 19 May 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Hakkı Behiç Bayiç |
| Succeeded by | Hasan Saka |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 30 October 1923 – 21 May 1924 |
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| President | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Prime Minister | İsmet İnönü |
| Preceded by | Ali Fethi Okyar |
| Succeeded by | Recep Peker |
| Ambassador to Great Britain | |
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In office 1925–1932 |
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| Ambassador to Poland | |
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In office 1932–1939 |
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| Ambassador to Japan | |
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In office 1939–1943 |
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| Personal details | |
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Ahmet Ferit 1877 Bursa, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | November 25, 1971 (aged 93–94) Istanbul, Turkey |
Ahmet Ferit Tek (1877 – 25 November 1971) was an Ottoman Turkish military officer, academic, Turkish politician, government minister and diplomat.
Ahmet Ferit Tek was born to Mustafa Reşit, an accountant at the Ottoman Ministry of Finance, and his wife Hanife Leyla in Bursa in 1877. To another source, he was born on 7 March 1878. He had a brother İbrahim Refet Tek.
He studied at Kuleli Military High School, and graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in the rank of a Leutnant.
He joined the Young Turks movement, which aimed the restoration of the suspended Ottoman constitution of 1876. He was arrested and exiled to Ottoman Tripolitania, what is today part of Libya. However, he managed to escape to Paris, France via Tunis. In Paris, he studied Political Science, and graduated. During this time, he also wrote for Şura-yı Ümmet ("People's Council", 1902–1929), an Ottoman periodical published by the Committee of Union and Progress of the Young Turks movement. After living in Kazan, Russian Empire between 1903–1908, he settled in Egypt. In Cairo, he wrote for the local newspaper Türk.
In 1908, Ahmet Ferit returned to İstanbul, and was appointed history professor at İstanbul University's School of Political Science. He co-founded "Milli Meşrutiyet Fırkası" ("National Constitutional Monarchy Party"). The ideas in the party programme of the nationalistic movement were "The Turks had fought on the frontiers of the Empire for centuries. They had to neglect their own land. Anatolia, the heart of Turkish territories, is uncared. The time has come for Turks to think over their own national destiny." On 25 March 1912, he co-founded Türk Ocakları (Turkish Hearths), a nationalistic organization, with Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (1869–1944), Ahmet Ağaoğlu (1869–1939), Yusuf Akçura (1876–1935) and some others. He was elected chairman of the organization in the first board meeting succeeding Yurdakul, the founding president. He published the newspaper İlham ("Inspiration"), where he wrote hot.
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