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Şükrü Saracoğlu
	Şükrü Saracoğlu
	;
Prime Minister of Turkey
	In office; July 9, 1942 – August 7, 1946
President	İsmet İnönü
Preceded by	Refik Saydam
Succeeded by	Recep Peker
Born	1887; İzmir, Ottoman Empire
Died	December 27, 1953 (aged 66); İstanbul, Turkey
Political party	Republican People's Party (CHP)
Alma mater	Mekteb-i Mülkiye
Religion	Muslim

Mehmet Şükrü Saracoğlu (1887, Ödemiş, İzmir – December 27, 1953, Istanbul) was a Turkish politician and the 6th Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey. He was also the chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. for 16 years between 1934-1950, including his Prime Ministry duration as well.

[edit] Biography

Born in Ödemiş, in 1887, he is the son of Saraç (Lorimer) Mehmet Tevfik Usta. He completed the primary and middle school in Ödemiş and graduated from the School of Civil Service (Mekteb-i Mülkiye) in 1909. For a while, he worked as officer of attendance and performed as mathematics teacher in İzmir High School (Sultaniye). In 1915, he studied in the Academy of Political Sciences in Geneva, Switzerland for the account of İzmir.

After the occupation of the Greeks to İzmir, he turned back to the homeland and established the struggle front in the region of Kuşadası, Aydın, Nazilli. He attended to the Grand National Assembly as İzmir Deputy in 1923; performed as Minister of Education in the cabinet of Fethi Okyar; and presided to the Commission for Composite Population Exchange that will conduct the negotiations with the Greek Government later on. He was appointed as the Minister of Finance in the 3rd cabinet which was formed by İsmet Pasha. After seceding from the Ministry, he was sent to the U.S.A. to complete some contacts about economic issues in 1931 and presided to the board going to Paris to solve the Ottoman Public Debt issues. In 1933, he reentered to the cabinet as the Minister of Justice and performed as the Foreign Minister at the first cabinet of Celal Bayar.

In the close days to the World War 2, he took place in the negotiations with the Russians in Moscow for months.

Upon the death of Refik Saydam in 1942, he was assigned as the Prime Minister and resigned from this duty due to his sickness. He was elected as the President of the Grand National Assembly in 1948 and remained in this position until 1950.

Saracoğlu, who has retired from the political life in 1950, was a farsighted statesman raised along with Atatürk, knows French and English. He was married with three children.

He died on December 27, 1953.

The Varlık Vergisi, a law on capital taxation enacted during his government in 1942, was imposed on wealthy non-Muslim minorities in Turkey in an arbitrary and unrealistic manner. It caused much criticism at home and abroad that led finally to its abolition in 1944. The short living draconian law effected also a landslide victory of the opposition Democratic Party in the 1950 general elections.

The home of the Turkish football club Fenerbahçe, Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, is named after him.

[edit] References

Biography, Biyografi.info (Turkish)
Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the General Directorate of Cultural Heritages and Museums

Political offices
Preceded by Tevfik Rüştü Aras	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Nov 11, 1938–Agu 13, 1942	Succeeded by Numan Menemencioğlu
Preceded by Refik Saydam	Prime Minister of Turkey Jul 9, 1942–Agu 7, 1946	Succeeded by Mehmet Recep Peker
Preceded by Ali Fuat Cebesoy	Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey Nov 1, 1948–May 22, 1950	Succeeded by Refik Koraltan
Honorary titles
Preceded by Hayri Celal Atamer	President of Fenerbahçe S.K. 1934–1950	Succeeded by Ali Muhittin Hacıbekir