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Atatürk and Okyar, August 1930

Ali Fethi Okyar (29 April 1880 – 7 May 1943) was a Turkish diplomat and politician who also served as a military officer during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. He was the second Prime Minister of Turkey (1924-25) and the second Speaker of the Turkish Parliament after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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In 1913, he joined the Committee of Union and Progress (İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) and was elected as the secretary general. In 1930, while serving as Turkey's Ambassador in Paris, he was asked by Atatürk, during a meeting in Yalova, to establish the Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Liberal Republican Party), an early party of opposition, in order to establish the tradition of multi-party democracy in Turkey. However, when the government noticed the support of this opposition among the population, it was declared illegal and closed down, just like the Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası which had lasted for a few months in 1924.

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