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Şükrü Kaya

Turkish politician and Minister of Interior

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Turkish politician and Minister of Interior

Field	Value
name	Şükrü Kaya
image	Mehmet Şükrü Kaya.jpg
office	Minister of Interior
term_start	25 October 1937
term_end	11 November 1938
primeminister	Celal Bayar
successor	Refik Saydam
office2	Minister of Interior
term_start2	1 November 1927
term_end2	25 October 1937
primeminister2	İsmet İnönü
predecessor2	Mehmet Cemil Uybadın
office3	Minister of Foreign Affairs
term_start3	21 November 1924
term_end3	3 March 1925
primeminister3	Ali Fethi Okyar
predecessor3	İsmet İnönü
successor3	Tevfik Rüştü Aras
office4	Minister of Agriculture
term_start4	31 August 1924
term_end4	21 October 1924
primeminister4	İsmet İnönü
predecessor4	Zekai Apaydın
successor4	Hasan Fehmi (Ataç)
office5	Mayor and Governor of Izmir
term_start5	1922
term_end5	1924
birth_date	9 March 1883
birth_place	Istanköy, Ottoman Empire
death_date
death_place	Istanbul, Turkey
nationality	Turkish
profession	Jurist
alma_mater	Istanbul University Law School
University of Paris
signature	Şükrü Kaya imzası.png
education	Galatasaray High School

University of Paris

Şükrü Kaya (9 March 1883 – 10 January 1959) was a Turkish civil servant and politician, who served as government minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign affairs in several governments. He is one of the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide.

Biography

Born in İstanköy (Kos), part of the Dodecanese in the then Ottoman Empire, he finished Galatasaray High School before he graduated from Law School in 1908. He did his graduate work in Paris, France. He worked as inspector of treasury for the Empire.

At the start of World War I, Şükrü was appointed the Director of Settlement of Tribes and Migrants (Aşair ve Muhacirin Genel Müdürü), a subdivision within the Interior Ministry, and mainly tasked with managing the Armenian deportations during the Armenian genocide. In September 1915, he was transferred to Aleppo, an important location along the deportation route into the Syrian desert.

While the Armenian Genocide was underway, Şükrü was tasked to administrate the concentration camps of Armenian deportees located in Syria. In order to manage the large influx of Armenians into the area, Şükrü started a policy that enforced a certain ratio of Armenians to be left untouched. However, once the Armenians exceeded this ratio, they were evacuated from their camps and subsequently massacred. On 19 December 1915, Şükrü is noted to have said to German engineer Bastendorff the following:

He was then assigned to Iraq but he resigned and moved to İzmir.

He worked as a teacher in Buca Sultanisi (high school). After the Armistice of Mudros, he worked for the Turkish national movement. Following the occupation of Istanbul by the Entente powers, he was arrested by the British administration and was exiled to Malta. He escaped to the continent from Malta and subsequently went to Anatolia and joined the Turkish War of Independence.

In September 1925 he was a member of the Reform Council for the Reform of the East () which prepared the Report for Reform in the East (). In 1930 he was the author of the outlines of Turkification (). Non-Turkish languages should be suppressed and non-Turkish names of locations changed to Turkish ones.

Şükrü Kaya served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Interior Minister in several cabinets between 1924 and 1938.

He died on 10 January 1959, in Istanbul.

References

Who is who database - Biography of Şükrü Kaya

References

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Goner, Ozlem. (14 June 2017). "Turkish National Identity and Its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim". Taylor & Francis.
Gunter, Michael M.. (2018-08-06). "Routledge Handbook on the Kurds". Routledge.

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