Samet Ağaoğlu (1909, Bakü - 6 Ağustos 1982, İstanbul) was a Turkish–Azerbaijani writer and politician. He was the son of the famous

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and naturalized

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politician, publicist and journalist Ahmet Agaoğlu.

Early life

He was born in 1909 in

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. His father was Ahmet Ağaoğlu, his mother was Sitare Hanım. The family was originally from Shusha. After the fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1920, the Ağaoğlu family moved to Turkey. Samet graduated from Ankara University, Law School in 1931. After he went to

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for study

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, but returned because his father's financial situation was not well.

Political career

He joined the Democratic Party when he began practicing law. He won the

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and

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elections and was elected a member of parliament from Manisa. He was a member of the IX, X, XI Parliament of Turkey. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1950 to 1952,

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from 1952 to 1953, and Minister of Commerce from 1954 to 1958. He was arrested during a military coup on May 27, 1960 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was pardoned in 1964 while imprisoned in Yassiada. After that, he was not directly involved in politics.

Literary career

Samet Ağaoğlu, who started writing in high school, published a magazine called "Hep Gençlik" with friends such as

Behçet Kemal Çağlar Behçet Kemal Çağlar (1908 – 24 October 1969) was a Turkish poet, educator and nationalist politician. Biography Çağlar graduated as a senior mining engineer in 1929. He served as a regional manager at MTA (Turkish Mining Survey and R ...

and

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between 1929-1931. He appeared with his first stories about his life in Strasbourg. Because of his political work, he published his books at long intervals, but he did not break with the literature until the end of his life. Samet Ağaoğlu, who also wrote many articles with political content, published his stories and essays in important magazines of the period such as Varlık, Yücel, and Çığır. He also used the signature of Samet Agayef in his writings. He came to his homeland Azerbaijan in 1967 and dedicated a chapter of the book "Soviet Russian Empire" to Azerbaijan.

Works

Stories: * 1944 Strassburg Hatıraları * 1950 Zürriyet * 1953 Öğretmen Gafur * 1957 Büyük Aile * 1964 Hücredeki Adam * 1965 Katırın Ölümü Memories: * 1940 Babamdan Hatıralar * 1958 Babamın Arkadaşları * 1965 Aşina Yüzler * 1967 Arkadaşım Menderes * 1972 Marmara'da Bir Ada * 1973 Demokrat Parti'nin Doğuş ve Yıkılış Sebepleri-Bir Soru * 1978 İlk Köşe * 1992 Siyasi Günlük:Demokrat Partinin Kuruluşu Review: * 1944 Kuvayı Milliye Ruhu * 1947 İki Parti Arasındaki Siyasi Farklar Travel: * 1967 Sovyet Rusya İmparatorluğu

Family

His father Ahmet Agaoğlu was a prominent Azerbaijani and naturalized Turkish politician, publicist and journalist. He was one of the founders of Pan-Turkism. His sister

Süreyya Ağaoğlu Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903, Shusha, Azerbaijan – 29 December 1989, Istanbul) was a Turkish- Azerbaijani writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in Turkish history.Ghada Talhami. Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Afr ...

was a writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in Turkish history. His sister

Tezer Taşkıran Tezer Taşkıran ( az, Tezer Taşqıran, 1907 – 4 May 1979) was a Turkish–Azerbaijani writer, politician and teacher. Early life She was born in 1907 in Shusha. Her father was Ahmet Ağaoğlu, a prominent Azerbaijani and later Turkish po ...

writer, politician and teacher. She was one of the Turkey's first women member of parliament. His wife Neriman Ağaoğlu was a politician too.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agaoglu, Samet 1909 births 1982 deaths Ankara University Faculty of Law alumni Burials at Feriköy Cemetery Writers from Baku Turkish writers 20th-century Turkish writers Soviet emigrants to Turkey Turkish people of Azerbaijani descent Deputies of Manisa Members of the 9th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 10th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 11th Parliament of Turkey Ministers of Labour and Social Security of Turkey Deputy Prime Ministers of Turkey Istanbul High School alumni Ağaoğlu family