Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk

Yusuf Kemal Bey (later surnamed Tengirşenk)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office March 30, 1921 – October 26, 1922
Prime Minister	Fevzi Pasha-Rauf Bey
Preceded by	Bekir Sami Bey
Succeeded by	İsmet Pasha
Personal details
Born	1878 Boyabat, current Sinop Province
Died	1969
Political party	Republican People's Party (CHP)- Republican Villagers Nation Party (CKMP)

Yusuf Kemal Bey (1878-1969) was a Turkish civil servant politician and academic. His name was Yusuf Kemal. Bey is a title. After the Turkish surname law in 1934, he assumed the surname Tengirşenk.

He was born in Boyabat (now in Sinop Province), Ottoman Empire in 1878. While studying in the Military school of Medicine in İstanbul he was arrested by the Ottoman police for disobeying Abdülhamid II. Although he was sentenced to be exiled to Fezzan (a Part of current Libya) he was pardoned due to his poor health. He studied law and graduated from the Faculty of law in İstanbul in 1904. He later took doctorate in political sciences in the University of Paris. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, following a brief term in parliament he served in high civil posts.

After the First World War he was elected as the MP in General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire as a representative of Kastamonu Province. But the Ottoman parliament was closed by the Allies of World War I and he traveled to Ankara to join the Turkish nationalists. In the 1st and the 2nd cabinet of the Executive Ministers of Turkey he was elected as the Minister of Economy (3 May 1920-30 March 1921). 1n the second half of the 3rd cabinet of the Executive Ministers of Turkey and in the 4th cabinet of the Executive Ministers of Turkey he was elected as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (30 March 1921-26 October 1922) . These cabinets were before the proclamation of the Turkish Republic. During the 6th government of Turkey, he was the Minister of Justice (27 October 1930-5 May-1931) .

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