| Enis Akaygen | |
|---|---|
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1881 Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1956 (aged 74–75) Yakacık, İstanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
Enis Akaygen (1881–1956) was a Turkish diplomat, politician and a self-taught economist.
Biography
He was born in Plovdiv in 1881. He was named as the ambassador of Turkey to the Soviet Union in 1925. He served as the ambassador of Turkey to Iran between 1934 and 1939. He was the Turkish ambassador to Greece from October 1939 to July 1945.
Akaygen became a member of the Democrat Party in 1946 and was elected as a deputy from Istanbul. He was among those who were fired from the DP in March 1948 due to their opposition. The others included Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk, Ahmet Tahtakılıç, Emin Sazak, Ahmet Oğuz, and Hasan Dinçer.
Akaygen died in Yakacık, İstanbul, in 1956.
References
- ^ "Biyografya: Enis Akaygen". www.biyografya.com.
- 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.
- "Balkan Studies". Institute for Balkan Studies, Society for Macedonian Studies. 23: 176. 1982.
- ^ 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.
External links
Media related to Enis Akaygen at Wikimedia Commons
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