Mehmet Galip Bey (1854-1915) was an Ottoman statesman who served as a Senator of the Ottoman Empire from 1908 till his death in 1915. Mehmet Galip Bey was born in

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in 1854. He is the son of Mehmet Said Efendi. He took lessons from private teachers. He learned

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and

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. At the age of sixteen, he was appointed as assistant director of Muş tahrirat. He remained in this post for only one year. He resigned a year later and returned to

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. He entered the Finance Letter Office. In 1873, he was appointed to the Directorate of Landscaping of the Süleymaniye

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. While he was a letterman in the Danube Vilayet, he had to return to

due to the war. He was appointed as a member of the Bidayet Court in 1880. He served as a Member, Prosecutor, and Chief of the Bidayet Court in

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, Sivas and

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. He worked as an Inspector of the Judiciary in

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. He became a member of the Committee of Union and Progress. He wrote poems under a

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for the magazines ''

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'' and '' Şûrâ-yı Ümmet'', which were published in

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, and Neyir-i Perakende, which was published in

. After the re-declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy, he was appointed as a member of the

Ottoman Senate The Senate of the Ottoman Empire ( ota, مجلس أعيان, or ; tr, Ayan Meclisi; lit. "Assembly of Notables"; french: Chambre des Seigneurs/Sénat (, with 'old') * el, γερουσία (, from , 'old man') , group=note) was the upper hous ...

on 27 December 1908. He held this role up until his death in 1915.Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclîsi Vakfı Yayınları No: 15 Türk Parlamento Tarihi Meşrutiyete Geçiş Süreci I. ve II. Meşrutiyet II. Cilt Ayan Ve Mebûsân Meclisleri Üyelerinin Özgeçmişleri Prof. Dr. İhsan Güneş Türk Parlamento Tarihi Araştırma Grubu sayfa 147 He had six children. His third child,

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Ahmet Naci, married British-born Olga Cynthia (whose name was changed to Nadide Kenter after she obtained Turkish citizenship). Yıldız Kenter and Müşfik Kenter were born from this marriage. Galip Bey was admitted to the Macedonia Risorta lodge operating in

on 8 October 1908, and was a dedicated

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