Mehmet Şerefettin Yaltkaya
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Mehmet Şerefettin Yaltkaya (17 November 1880 – 23 April 1947) was a Turkish religious scholar, who served as the 2nd president of religious affairs of the
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from 1942 until his death in 1947. He is known for leading the
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prayer of
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...
on 19 November 1938 at the
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in
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. More than 60 of his works are available. He was born in
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. After graduating from the Davutpaşa Middle School, he graduated from the Male Teachers' College for Secondary Schools. In 1924, he became a lecturer in the history of remark at the
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Faculty of Theology, and later became a distinguished professor in the field of
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and its
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. On November 19, 1938, while he was the director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, he led Ataturk's funeral prayer by a limited congregation. He was appointed as the president of religious affairs on January 14, 1942, and died on April 23, 1947, while on duty. His grave is in
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in
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. His library was given to the
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Faculty of Language and History–Geography in accordance with his will. He was a supporter of the
Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...
and Ataturk's reforms such as Turkish
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.


See also

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Death and state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of the Republic of Turkey, died at the Dolmabahçe Palace, his official residence in Istanbul, on 10 November 1938. His state funeral was held in the capital city of Ankara on 21 November, and was att ...
*
Sicilian Questions ''Sicilian Questions'' (المسائل الصقلية, al-Masāʼil al-Ṣiqilliyya, in Arabic) is a 13th-century philosophical work by Ibn Sab'in. It contains the answer given by him to some philosophical questions raised by the Frederick II of ...


External links

* https://www.diyanet.gov.tr/en-US/


References

{{Reflist 1880 births 1947 deaths