Enis Akaygen

Enis Akaygen
Personal details
Born1881
Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire
Died1956 (aged 74–75)
Yakacık, İstanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish

Enis Akaygen (1881–1956) was a Turkish diplomat, politician and a self-taught economist.[1]

Biography

He was born in Plovdiv in 1881.[1] He was named as the ambassador of Turkey to the Soviet Union in 1925.[1] He served as the ambassador of Turkey to Iran between 1934 and 1939.[1] He was the Turkish ambassador to Greece from October 1939 to July 1945.[2][3]

Akaygen became a member of the Democrat Party in 1946 and was elected as a deputy from Istanbul.[1][4] He was among those who were fired from the DP in March 1948 due to their opposition.[4] The others included Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk, Ahmet Tahtakılıç, Emin Sazak, Ahmet Oğuz, and Hasan Dinçer.[4]

Akaygen died in Yakacık, İstanbul, in 1956.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Biyografya: Enis Akaygen". www.biyografya.com.
  2. ^ Shaw, Stanford J. (2016). Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933–1945. Springer. p. 333. ISBN 9781349130412.
  3. ^ "Balkan Studies". Institute for Balkan Studies, Society for Macedonian Studies. 23: 176. 1982.
  4. ^ a b c M. Asım Karaömerlioğlu; İlkay Kirişçioğlu (2022). "Political travelers in a polarized country: the Freedom Party experience in Turkish history". Middle Eastern Studies. 58 (6): 962. doi:10.1080/00263206.2022.2034148.


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