Mithat Şükrü Bleda

Mithat Şükrü Bleda
Member of the Grand National Assembly
ConstituencySivas (1935, 1939, 1943, 1946)
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
ConstituencySerres (1908)
Drama (1912)
Burdur (1914)
Personal details
Born1874
Selanik, Selanik Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died19 February 1956 (aged 81–82)
Istanbul, Turkey
Resting placeMonument of Liberty, Istanbul
NationalityTurkish
Political partyCommittee of Union and Progress

Mithat Şükrü Bleda (1874 – 19 February 1956) was a Turkish politician, who was a founding member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which he also served as its party secretary.[1][2][3]

Biography

Midhat Şükrü was born in Selanik (Thesalonika) After graduating from the civil service academy, he took part in the founding of the Committee of Union and Progress. He served as its general secretary between 1911- 1917. He was also a deputy in the Ottoman parliament, representing Serres, Drama, and Burdur in 1908, 1912, and 1914 respectively. Between 1935 - 1950 he represented Sivas in the Grand National Assembly. He died in Istanbul in 1956, and was buried in the Monument of Liberty upon his will.

His memoirs were published under the title of Bir İmparatorluğun Çöküşü (The Collapse of an Empire), which constitute an important source of the Second Constitutional Era. It was adapted into modern Turkish by his son Turgut Bleda (Remzi Kitabevi [tr], 1979).

References

  1. ^ Erik Jan Zürcher (1984). The Unionist Factor: The Rôle of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926. E.J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-07262-4.
  2. ^ Erik Jan Zürcher (2017). Turkey: A Modern History. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78453-187-4.
  3. ^ "Syllabus". www.sabanciuniv.edu. Retrieved 23 December 2020.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160206090417/https://www.tbmm.gov.tr/TBMM_Album/Cilt1/Cilt1.pdf


Stub icon

This article about a Turkish politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.