Mehmet Şamil Bey (born Osman Paşazade Mehmet Şamil,
Mehmet Şamil Şhaplı following ''
Surname Law''; 1891 – 2 February 1957), was a Turkish
diplomat
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, journalist and sports executive, who was one of 22 founding members and first president of Turkish sports club
Beşiktaş J.K.
Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (), also known simply as Beşiktaş (), is a Turkish sports club founded in 1903 that is based in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul. The club's football team is one of the Big Three in Turkey and one of the most ...
His presidency lasted 5 years between 1903 and 1908.
Biography
Şhaplı, of
Circassian descent,
was born as Osman Paşazade Mehmet Şamil in 1891 in
Medina,
Ottoman Empire (today's
Saudi Arabia), as the eldest of 11 siblings of
Şhaplı Osman Ferit Pasha and Emire Nefiset Hanım.
Osman Ferit Pasha (born in
Dagestan
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), is a descendant of Şhaplı Kubilayko Mahomet Bey, a military figure of
Ubykh Tribe in
Sochi
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.
Emire Nefiset Hanım is the granddaughter of
Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, the political, military, and spiritual leader of Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s.
Parents of Mehmet Şamil met in Medina, when Osman Ferit Pasha was serving as ''Shaykh al-Haram'' of Medina, Ottoman Empire.
Due to new appointment of Osman Ferit Pasha as commander of
Taşkışla Military Barracks, the time also when he finished his primary school education, Mehmet Şamil moved to Istanbul with his family where he studied
Lycée Saint-Joseph, Istanbul
Lycée Saint-Joseph ( tr, İstanbul Özel Saint-Joseph Fransız Lisesi) is a private high school located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a French school founded in 1870. Classes are taught in Turkish, French, and English. Fenerbahçe S.K. was forme ...
.
In 1902 Autumn, a group of young athletics practitioners including Mehmet Şamil and his brother Hüseyin Bereket used to train
gymnastics,
weight lifting,
wrestling at
Şeyhhül Harem Osman Paşa Konağı,
Serencebey Neighbourhood,
Beşiktaş
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District of Istanbul. Shortly after in 1902, the group were taken into custody since it was
İstibdat period of Ottoman Empire and playing football was prohibited, however they have been released following unfolded fact that they were practising athletics, individually -rather than playing football. On contrary,
Şehzade Abdülhalim, son of
Süleyman Selim Efendi, and grandson of
Emperor Abdulmejid, appointed Kenan Bey, a then-well-known
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
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and wrestler.
In 1903, the Group founded "Beşiktaş Bereket Jimnastik Kulübü" (later registered as ''Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü'' in 1911).
Following death of his father, Mehmet Şamil moved to
Geneva, Switzerland,
where he studied
Political Science at
University of Geneva.
Taken "Şhaplı" as surname following
1934 Surname Law
The Surname Law ( tr, Soyadı Kanunu) of the Republic of Turkey was adopted on 21 June 1934. The law requires all citizens of Turkey to adopt the use of fixed, hereditary surnames. Turkish families in the major urban centres had names by which the ...
, Mehmet Şamil Şhaplı died on 7 February 1957 in Istanbul.
Following his death ceremony at
Teşvikiye Mosque, he was buried in
Eyüp Cemetery
The Eyüp Cemetery ( tr, Eyüp Mezarlığı), aka Eyüp Sultan Cemetery, is a historic burial ground located in the Eyüp district, on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey. It is administered by the General Directorate of Foundations. One of th ...
, next to his father's grave.
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Beşiktaş J.K
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1891 births
1957 deaths
People from Medina
Beşiktaş J.K. presidents
20th-century Turkish businesspeople
Turkish people of Circassian descent