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Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (13 August 1903 – 26 December 1981) was a Turkish
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who served a brief term as Prime Minister of Turkey in 1965. He was also the last Prime Minister to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey, being born in
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, which was then part of the
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.


Early life

Ürgüplü graduated from Galatasaray High School. He was the descendant of a distinguished line of Ottoman religious scholars and administrators. His father was the celebrated Sheikh ul-Islam Ürgüplü Hayri Efendi, minister of religious affairs under the
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(or Young Turk) regime of 1913–1918.


Career

After a brief career as a
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, Ürgüplü entered the
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in 1939 and served as Minister of Customs and Public Monopolies in the Şükrü Saracoğlu cabinet in 1947–1948. He returned to the
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of Parliament in 1961 and was its
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from 27 November 1963 to 6 November 1963. Ürgüplü was asked to form a non-partisan caretaker cabinet after the collapse of Premier İsmet İnönü's coalition government in 1965. The cabinet was formed on 5 February, and served until the parliamentary elections of 10 October, although it never received a vote of confidence in Parliament. Ürgüplü continued to serve in the Senate until 1972.


Death

Ürgüplü died on 27 December 1981 in
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and was interred at the Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery.


Issue

His son Hayri Ürgüplü (b. 31 May 1936) married in
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,
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, on 10 April 1965, Princess Sabiha Fazile Ibrahim Hanımsultan of Egypt. The couple had two sons: Ali Suad Ürgüplü (b. 28 September 1967) and Mehmed Selim Ürgüplü (b. 31 October 1968). The couple divorced on 24 September 1980.


References


External links

* Who is who database
''Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (1903 - 1981)''
* Biyografi.net
''Biography of Suat Hayri Ürgüplü''
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