Reşit Galip

Reşit Galip
Reşit Galip in the 1920s
Ministry of National Education
In office 19 September 1932 – 13 July 1933
Prime Minister	İsmet İnönü
Preceded by	Esat Sagay
Succeeded by	Hikmet Bayur
Personal details
Born	1893 Sanjak of Rhodes, Ottoman Empire
Died	5 March 1934 Ankara, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Political party	Republican People's Party
Education	Medicine
Alma mater	Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul University
Occupation	Politician, civil servant

Reşit Galip (Rhodes, 1893 – Ankara, 5 March 1934) was a Turkish politician in the early years of the Turkish Republic. By profession, he was a medical doctor.

He was born in the Sanjak of Rhodes (now an island of Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1883. His father was Mehmet Galip, a judge and his mother was Münevver. He completed his elementary education in Rhodes. According to his granddaughter Feyhan Oran, when Rhodes was occupied by Italy he escaped to İzmir where he finished his highschool education. Then, he travelled to İstanbul to study medicine. During the Balkan War and the First World War he voluntarily served in the fronts. In 1917 he graduated from the medicine school of İstanbul University. Although he briefly served as an assistant in the faculty, he later on moved to Tavşanlı ( a town in West Anatolia) to participate in the Turkish War of Independence. Towards the end of the war, he was appointed as the official doctor in Mersin. In 1925 he was elected as a MP from Aydın Province.

He was always interested in politics. In İzmir and İstanbul he published bulletins and in Mersin he wrote in a local newspaper as the chief editor. While serving as a MP, he was elected as the member of Independence Tribunals. In 1930s he served as the charter member of two associations which were supported by Kemal Atatürk, the founder of Turkish Republic; Turkish Language Association and Turkish Historical Society. He later on became the president of Turkish Language Association. Between 19 September 1932 and 13 July 1933 he served as the Minister of National Education. (see 7th government of Turkey)