Ahmet Muhtar Mollaoğlu (1870 – 1934) was a Turkish diplomat and politician, who was the first ambassador of
Turkey
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to the
United States
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He was born to Cemaleddin Effendi, an official at the court of
Abdul Hamid II
Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...
and was raised with
French
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as a secondary language beside
Turkish
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He didn't have an education which prepared him for a diplomatic career, but he had a lot of self taught experience in the field with time.
He was assigned to work in the lower ranks of the diplomatic service from 1898 to 1906 abroad and after the Young Turk Revolution he has been appointed as the Consul General in
Budapest
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,
Hungary
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.
[Harris, George Sellers; Criss, Bilge (2009), p.148] In 1911 he also took up activities in the Embassy of
Vienna
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, Austria.
The next year, in 1912, he was given the post of an
Ottoman diplomat to
Greece
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in
Athens
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During World War I, he at times wasn't receiving his full salary and after the United States entered the war, he was skeptical to the discussed suspension of the diplomatic relations to the USA.
Even though his advice wasn't followed, he made a strong impression and was assigned as a diplomat to
Kiev
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in 1918.
His assignment was not to his pleasure and he terminated his stay in Kiev in 1919. In the same year he was elected a deputy of the
Ottoman Parliament
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representing
Constantinople
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References
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1870 births
1934 deaths
Ambassadors of Turkey to Ukraine
Ambassadors of Turkey to the United States
20th-century Turkish politicians
People from Çanakkale
Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians