Munir Ertegun
| Mehmet Munir Ertegun | |
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| Ambassador of Turkey to Switzerland | |
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In office 1925–1930 |
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| President | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Preceded by | Refik Birgen |
| Succeeded by | Cemal Hüsnü Taray |
| Ambassador of Turkey to France | |
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In office 1930–1932 |
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| President | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Ambassador of Turkey to the United Kingdom | |
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In office 1932–1934 |
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| President | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Preceded by | Ahmet Ferit Tek |
| Succeeded by | Ali Fethi Okyar |
| Ambassador of Turkey to the United States | |
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In office 1934–1944 |
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| President |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, İsmet İnönü |
| Preceded by | Ahmet Muhtar Mollaoğlu |
| Succeeded by | Hüseyin Ragıp Baydur |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Mehmet Munir Cemil 1883 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1944 (aged 60–61) Washington, D.C. |
| Resting place | Sultantepe, Üsküdar, Istanbul |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Children | Ahmet Ertegun (son), Nesuhi Ertegun (son), Selma Göksel (daughter) |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
| Profession | Diplomat |
Mehmet Munir Ertegun (Turkish spelling: Münir Ertegün; 1883 – 11 November 1944) was a Turkish legal counsel in international law to the "Sublime Porte" (imperial government) of the late Ottoman Empire and a diplomat of the Republic of Turkey during its early years. Ertegun married Emine Hayrünnisa Rüstem in 1917 and the couple had three children, two of whom were Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun, the brothers who founded Atlantic Records and became iconic figures in the American music industry.
Born in Istanbul to a civil servant father, Mehmet Cemil Bey, and a mother Ayşe Hamide Hanım, who was a daughter of Sufi shaykh İbrahim Edhem Efendi, he studied law at Istanbul University and graduated in 1908. He was a legal counsel for the Ottoman Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when he saw the birth of his first son, Nesuhi, on 26 November 1917, in Istanbul, during the First World War. Taking part in an Ottoman delegation with a mission to search reconciliation with the Nationalists in Ankara, by the end of 1920, changed his destiny. While the two Ottoman Ministers heading the delegation returned to Istanbul after not achieving an understanding with the revolutionaries led by Mustafa Kemal Pasha he chose to join the National Struggle and remained in Ankara, leaving behind his young wife and three-year-old son, Nesuhi. He became an aide to Mustafa Kemal during the Turkish War of Independence and the chief legal counsel of the Turkish delegation to the resulting Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
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