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Ali Cenani (1872
Ali Cenani (1872 Constantinople
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–5 December 1934) was a Turkish politician of the Republican Peoples Party (CHP) and member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( tr, ), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament ( tr, or ''Parlamento''), is the unicameral Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the Turkish Const ...
. He served as a Minister of Commerce in the 1920s during the Presidency of Kemal Atatürk Kemal may refer to:
;People
* Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a Turkish politician and the first president of Turkey
* Kemal (name), a common Turkish name
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* Kemalpaşa, İzmir Province, Turkey
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. Before, he was also member of the Ottoman Parliament
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.
Early life and education
He was born into the Ottoman bureaucratic family of the Cenanizade, of which Grand VizierKadri Pasha
Mehmed Kadri Pasha also known as Kadri Pasha (1832 – 1884) was an Ottoman statesman and reformer. He was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Abdul Hamid II from 9 June 1880 to 12 September 1880. From 11 February 1876 t ...
was also part of. After having graduated from high school, he studied finance and economy.
Political career
He settled inAntep
Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximat ...
(today Gaziantep) in 1891 and was elected into the Ottoman Parliament in 1908, representing Aleppo. The same year he was elected the head of the Antep branch of the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP), the teacher Taşçızâde Abdullah Effendi became the Vice-President. He was re-elected for a second term. As the leader of the CUP in Antep, he was involved in the deportations of the Armenian population during World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. Even though Cenani played a leading role in the deportations of Armenians, he was tolerant to requests of exemptions of deportation of some wealthy Armenians, which caused a complaint by Ahmet Faik Erner, the Kaymakam
Kaymakam, also known by many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrators of district kazas. The title has been retained a ...
of Antep at the time. In 1915, he focused on the deportations of the elite of the protestant Armenians, of whom he eventually took over many of heir possessions. He was an MP of the Ottoman Parliament until on the 16 March 1916, Constantinople was occupied by the British army
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. During the Turkish War of Independence
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, he organized the resistance in the region around Antep in 1918. He reportedly received weapons for this means on the orders of Mustafa Kemal
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, Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world.
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(Atatürk). The British managed to get hold of Cenani in Constantinople on the 24 May 1920 and sent to Malta
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in November 1920.Kurt, Ümit (31 January 2018), p.71 He and Ahmet Faik Erner, were accused of having been involved in the deportation of about 25'000 Armenians from Antep. Upon his return from Malta, he joined the Kemalist
Kemalism ( tr, Kemalizm, also archaically ''Kamâlizm''), also known as Atatürkism ( tr, Atatürkçülük, Atatürkçü düşünce), or The Six Arrows ( tr, Altı Ok), is the founding official ideology of the Republic of Turkey.Eric J. Zurche ...
faction and became a member of the Grand National Assembly for Antep.Kurt, Ümit (31 January 2018), p.73 He later became a Minister of Commerce between 22 November 1924 and the 17 May 1926, and served in both, the Governments of Fethi Okyar and also Ismet Inönü Ismet ( tr, İsmet) is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Ismet. Along with Turkish, the name is also seen in Albanian, Bosnian, and Macedonian. The name means "honesty" or "purity" and in classical "infallibility", "immaculate", "impeccability" a ...
. In 1928 he was investigated for misspending 500'000 TL and sentenced to one year in prison and to pay a fine of 170'000 TL.Kurt, Ümit (31 January 2018), p.74 He died in 1934.
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