Istanbul
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Ottoman Empire
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Ankara
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Turkey
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) was a Turkish soldier and statesman. In 1966, he served as acting president for 54 days when President
Turkish War of Independence
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on the Western front with the rank of medical lieutenant and won the Medal of Independence (İstiklâl Madalyası) by rising to first lieutenant. He was appointed to the Military Medical School (Gülhane Academy) as a negotiator physician. He completed his internal medicine specialist training in 1926. When he passed the Medical Faculty Hygiene Associate Professorship exam, which he entered on leave from the
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, he was considered on leave for five years, without prejudice to his connection with the army. He was appointed to Erzurum Military Hospital (Marshal Çakmak Military Hospital) on 3 October 1933. He became a major in 1934. After the Tekirdağ Military Hospital, he was assigned to the Siirt Military Hospital. He served in the Eastern service after his appointment as a lieutenant colonel in 1941. He was transferred to Ankara Military School Chief Physician. He was appointed as the 2nd Medical Doctor of the Military Position Hospital. He worked in the General Staff Health Department (). He was appointed as a hygiene professor at Gülhane Military Medical Academy. Brigadier general in 1953, and promoted to major general in 1956. He was appointed as the Head of the Land Forces Department of Health. He retired on 21 September 1957. Between 1958 and 1960 he served as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health.
In the election held on 15 October 1961 he was elected as a member of the Republican Senate
NevÅŸehir
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He acted as President of the Republic between 2 February and 28 March 1966, when President
was in treatment in the United States. He chaired the Senate Delegations, which officially visited Berlin, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Pakistan and Hungary at the invitation of the Parliament Presidents.