Ali Fethi Okyar

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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 third Prime Minister of Turkey and the second Speaker of the Turkish Parliament after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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 create the Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Liberal Republican Party), an early party of opposition, in order to establish the tradition of multi-party democracy in Turkey.

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Speakers of the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey

Grand National Assembly (1920 - 1960)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk • Ali Fethi Okyar • Kazım Özalp • Mustafa Abdulhalik Renda • Kazım Karabekir • Ali Fuat Cebesoy • Şükrü Saracoğlu • Refik Koraltan
House of Representatives (1961)
Kazım Orbay
National Assembly (1961 - 1980)
Fuat Sirmen • Ferruh Bozbeyli • Sabit Osman Avcı • Kemal Güven • Cahit Karakaş
Consultative Assembly (1981 - 1983)
Sadi Irmak
Grand National Assembly (1983 - present)
Necmettin Karaduman • Yıldırım Akbulut • İsmet Kaya Erdem • Hüsamettin Cindoruk • İsmet Sezgin • Mustafa Kalemli • Hikmet Çetin • Ömer İzgi • Bülent Arınç