Writer
(b. 1877, Gelibolu / Çanakkale – d. 1939, İstanbul). He was a graduate of
Galatasaray High School and the School of Law in 1902. He was a parliamentary
deputy in the last Ottoman Parliament and in the Turkish Great National Assembly
for a few periods until 1934. He was the President of the Board that prepared
the 1924 Constitution. During the years of armistice, his articles about many
subjects were published in the newspapers Âti (1918) and İleri
(1919-1924), which he also published.
WORKS:
STUDY-RESEARCH:
Le Droit Public de L’İslâm (Islamic Public Law, 1909), İttihat ve
Terakki Kongresine Muhtıra (Diplomatic Note to the Congress of İttihat ve
Terakki*, 1911), Tarih-i İstiklal
(History of Independence, 1914-1915), Türkçemiz (Our Turkish Language,
1917), Coğrafyayı Tarih-i Mülk-i Rum (Geography of the History of Greek
Property, 1918), Taç Giyen Millet (The Nation Who Wears a Crown, 1923), Türk
İnkılabı (The Turkish Revolution, 1926), Dil ve Edebiyat Yazıları
(Essays of Language and Literature, 1995).
NOVEL: Merhûme (Deceased Woman, 1918).
