Ali Fethi Okyar
| Ali Fethi Okyar | |
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| 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey | |
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In office 22 November 1924 – 3 March 1925 |
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| President | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Preceded by | İsmet İnönü |
| Succeeded by | İsmet İnönü |
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In office 14 August 1923 – 23 October 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Rauf Orbay |
| Succeeded by | İsmet İnönü |
| Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey | |
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In office 1 November 1923 – 22 November 1924 |
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| President | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Prime Minister | İsmet İnönü |
| Preceded by | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Succeeded by | Kâzım Özalp |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Ali Fethi 29 April 1880 Prilep, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 7 May 1943 (aged 63) Istanbul, Turkey |
| Political party |
Republican People's Party (1923–1930) Liberal Republican Party (1930) Republican People's Party (1930–1943) |
| Religion | Islam |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Ottoman Empire
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| Service/branch |
 Ottoman Army
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| Years of service | 1898–1914 |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Battles/wars | Balkan Wars |
Ali Fethi Okyar (29 April 1880 – 7 May 1943) was a Turkish diplomat and politician who also served as a military officer and diplomat during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. He was also the second Prime Minister of Turkey (1924–1925) and the second Speaker of the Turkish Parliament after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
He was born in the Ottoman town of Prilep in Manastir Vilayet (present-day Republic of Macedonia) to a Circassian family. In 1913, he joined the Committee of Union and Progress (İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) and was elected as the secretary general. In 1930, while serving as Turkey's Ambassador in Paris, he was asked by Atatürk, during a meeting in Yalova, to establish the Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Liberal Republican Party), an early party of opposition, in order to establish the tradition of multi-party democracy in Turkey. However, when the government noticed the support of this opposition party among Islamists, it was declared illegal and closed down, a situation similar to that of the Progressive Republican Party, which had lasted for a few months in 1924. He later served as Justice Minister from 1939 to 1941.
Atatürk and Okyar, August 1930
Okyar in his early days
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