Moiz Cohen (1883 in Serres,

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writer, philosopher, and journalist of Jewish heritage. He became an ideologue of different movements at different times: Ottomanism, Pan-Turkism, and

Kemalism 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 ...

. Born to a Jewish family, he later changed his name to Munis Tekinalp.Jacob M. Landau, ''Tekinalp, Turkish Patriot, 1883-1961'' (1984)

Biography

He was sent for schooling in the Alliance Israélite Universelle school in Salonica, continuing for a

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(though he never practiced). He would later continue to legal studies in Salonica, completing them in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) after Salonica fell to Greece. In 1905, he began to write for the newspaper ''Asır'', later renamed into the ''Yeni Asır'' where he worked for five years and was promoted to its editor-in-chief. In 1912 he left Salonica for Istanbul, where he began teaching law and economics at the

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and was engaged in tabac export. He published an economy magazine for the Association of Economy and served as a consultant for some companies until 1918. He would later become one of the advocates of Turkish nationalism and an ideologue of Pan-Turkism. After 1923, he became a passionate ideologue of

and wrote a standard work about it. He taught in the community schools, and entered active politics in the

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(CHP) for which he served in the city council. Tekinalp ran for the general elections in

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and

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, however he could not enter the parliament. He served as the secretary general of the

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. He wrote for the newspapers '' Cumhuriyet'', ''

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'', '' Akşam'', '' Hürriyet'', and ''

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''. He was an adherent of the idea of a forceful Turkification of the minorities within the Turkish Republic and wrote such in his pamphlet ''Türkleştirme'' (1928). In 1934 he, Hanri Soriano and Marsel Franko, also Jews, founded the Turkish Culture Association (''Türk Kültür Cemiyeti'') for the promotion of the Turkish language. He presented the principles of Kemalism in a book published in Istanbul in 1936, then updated and translated them into French one year later, with a preface by Édouard Herriot (''Le Kémalisme'', Paris: Félix Alcan Publisher, 1937). Following his retirement from the

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in 1956, he moved to Nice, France, where he died in 1961. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery of Nice.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tekinalp, Munis 20th-century French philosophers 20th-century non-fiction writers 1883 births 1961 deaths People from Serres Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians Turkish non-fiction writers Turkish philosophers Cumhuriyet people Hürriyet people Vatan people Akşam people Pan-Turkists Turkish nationalists Academic staff of Istanbul University Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni