Ahmet Hamdi Apaydın (1862 – 28 October 1936) was a

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politician. His name during the Ottoman era was ''Miralayzade Ahmet Hamdi'' (Ahmet Hamdi, the son of the Colonel) But after the Surname Law in

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in 1934, he took the surname Apaydın and dropped the epithet Miralayzade.

Life

He was born in Erzurum in 1862 during the Ottoman Empire era. His father Hasan was a colonel in the Ottoman army. He completed his primary education in Erzurum and secondary education in Sivas and

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. He began his professional life as a clerk in 1881. Next year he voluntarily attended the army. But he resigned from the army in 1894 while he was a lieutenant. In 1897, he returned to his former profession as the chief clerk in the royal farm's directorate. During the

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he established an institution for the orphans of the war.Turkish parliament page
/ref> He was married and the father of a daughter and three sons. He died on 28 October 1936 in Amasya.

Political life

After the First World War, he supported the

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during the

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. He established the ''

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'' ( tr, Müdafaa-i hukuk Cemiyeti) in Amasya. When Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk) visited Amasya to declare his famous circular on 12 June 1919, he was one of the welcomers. He was elected as the Amasya MP from the

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(CHP, then known as Halk Fırkası) in the First Parliament of Turkey on 23 April 1920. In the parliament he was elected to the committee of Finance. After the war, he did not run for the next elections held in 1923 and returned to Amasya.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamdi Apaydin People from Amasya 1862 births 1936 deaths Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians People from the Ottoman Empire