Ali Kemal Bey
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| Born | 1867 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 6 November 1922 (aged 54–55) İzmit, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Occupation | Government official (occupational force), journalist, poet |
Ali Kemal (1867 – 6 November 1922) was a liberal Ottoman journalist, newspaper editor, and poet who was for some three months Minister of the Interior in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He was murdered during the Turkish War of Independence.
Kemal is the paternal grandfather of the British politician Stanley Johnson and great-grandfather of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Universities minister Jo Johnson, and journalist Rachel Johnson.
Kemal's mother was a Circassian, reputedly of slave origin. Kemal was a journalist who travelled widely and took his holidays in other countries. On one of several visits to Switzerland, he met and fell in love with an Anglo-Swiss girl, Winifred Brun, the daughter of Frank Brun by his marriage to Margaret Johnson. They were married in Paddington, London, Middlesex, on 11 September 1903.
Early in his life, Kemal had acquired strong liberal democratic convictions, which caused him to be exiled from the Ottoman Empire under Abdulhamit II, but immediately after the end of the Sultan's personal rule in July 1908, he became one of the most prominent figures in Ottoman journalistic and political life. Because of his opposition to the Young Turks who had made the revolution, he spent most of the following decade in opposition.
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