Doctor, soldier, politician (B. 1868, Diyarbekir- D. 1903, San Remo/ Italy).
He completed his primary and secondary education in his home town then he moved
to Istanbul and graduated from Military Medical Faculty as Lieutenant Doctor
and began to work Haydarpaşa Practice Hospital. He was one of the people
established Union and Progress Association and worked for Freedom and
Constitutional Monarchy during the Abdülhamit the Second. When his works
against Abdülhamit Government came out, he was exiled to Rodos Castle. He
escaped from here and settled in Paris. In 1897, he established Genève Office
of Union and Progress Association with his friends’ İbrahim Temo, Abdullah
Cevdet, Kafkasyalı Mehmet Reşit and Bakülü Hüseyinzâde Ali. He published Ottoman
newspaper here. Same year he leaded the establishment of Cairo Office of the
Association.
Government felt uneasy about İshak
Sukuti’s and his friend’s works against and Abdülhamit the second offered them jobs
according to their professions in return for them to gave up working against
him. İshak Sükuti and his friends accepted this agreement in return for freedom
of the seventy eight political prisoners in Tripoli and began to work as a doctor
in Rome Embassy. During this period, Union and Progress Association kept on
publishing in London. Sukuti supported these publishing with his anonym
writings. During his exile years, he got tuberculosis and passed away in
Sweden/ San Remo. After the Constitutional Monarch (1908) his bones were moved to
Istanbul by his friend Rıza Nur in 1909 and buried in to the garden of Sultan
Mahmut’s tomb.
REFERENCE:
İbrahim Alâeddin
Gövsa / Türk Meşhurları (1946), Ahmet
Bedevi Kuran / İnkılâp Tarihimiz ve İttihad ve Terakki (1948), İhsan Işık /
TEKAA (2006) - Diyarbakır Ansiklopedisi (2013).