Mithat Şükrü Bleda
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{{Short description|Turkish politician (1874–1956)}}
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| office2 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies
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| birth_date = 1874
| birth_place = Selanik, Selanik Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
| death_date = 19 February 1956 (aged 81–82)
| death_place = Istanbul, Turkey
| nationality = Turkish
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| party = Committee of Union and Progress
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| constituency2 = Serres (1908)
Drama (1912)
Burdur (1914)
| constituency1 = Sivas (1935, 1939, 1943, 1946)
| resting_place = Monument of Liberty, Istanbul
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Mithat Şükrü Bleda (1874 – 19 February 1956) was a Turkish politician, who was a founding member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which he also served as its party secretary.{{Cite book|author= Erik Jan Zürcher|date=1984|title=The Unionist Factor: The Rôle of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcoUAAAAIAAJ&q=Mithat+%C5%9E%C3%BCkr%C3%BC+Bleda+committee+of+union&pg=PA38|publisher=E.J. Brill|isbn=90-04-07262-4}}{{Cite book|author= Erik Jan Zürcher|date=2017|title=Turkey: A Modern History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7qKDwAAQBAJ&q=Mithat+%C5%9E%C3%BCkr%C3%BC+Bleda+committee+of+union+secretary&pg=PA377|publisher=I.B. Tauris|isbn=978-1-78453-187-4}}{{Cite web|title=Syllabus|url=https://www.sabanciuniv.edu/syllabus/?crn=30159&term=201903|access-date=23 December 2020|website=www.sabanciuniv.edu}}
Biography
Midhat Şükrü was born in Selanik (Thesalonika). After graduating from the civil service academy (Mülkiye), he took part in the founding of the Committee of Union and Progress. He served as its general secretary between 1911- 1917. He was also a deputy in the Ottoman parliament, representing Serres, Drama, and Burdur in 1908, 1912, and 1914 respectively. Between 1935 - 1950 he represented Sivas in the Grand National Assembly. He died in Istanbul in 1956, and was buried in the Monument of Liberty upon his will.
His memoirs were published under the title of Bir İmparatorluğun Çöküşü (The Collapse of an Empire), which constitute an important source of the Second Constitutional Era. It was adapted into modern Turkish by his son Turgut Bleda ({{Interlanguage link|Remzi Kitabevi|lt=Remzi Kitabevi|tr}}, 1979).
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External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20160206090417/https://www.tbmm.gov.tr/TBMM_Album/Cilt1/Cilt1.pdf
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Category:Politicians from Thessaloniki
Category:20th-century Turkish politicians
Category:Turks from the Ottoman Empire
Category:Committee of Union and Progress politicians
Category:Politicians from the Ottoman Empire
Category:Turkish revolutionaries
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