Ankara Deputies in the First Parliament

The Assembly, which convened in Ankara on April 23, 1920, has a very special and important place in our parliamentary history. This Assembly was opened with the deputies returning from exile from Istanbul and Malta, and the deputies elected from different regions of the country. It held 750 sessions in its four legislative years, 1920-1923. Ankara was represented by nine deputies in the first term of the Parliament. Four of these deputies, Ömer Mümtaz Bey, Hacı Atıf (Taşpınar), Mustafa Hilmi (Çayırlıoğlu) and Ahmet Rüstem (Bilinski), came from Istanbul and attended the Assembly directly. The other five deputies, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), Ali Fuad (Cebesoy), Hacı Mustafa (Beynam), Şakir (Kınacı) and Şemsettin (Bayramoğlu) obtained the right to represent Ankara by being elected. Thus, the deputies to represent Ankara were determined. Even describing in detail all the great efforts of Mustafa Kemal, one of the Ankara deputies, in the Assembly is beyond the limits of such a study. For this reason, the essence of this study was outlined in the context of a specific template, with brief biographies of nine deputies representing Ankara, their political activities in the parliament and the administrative duties they assumed in the parliament. Undoubtedly, in the difficult conditions of the period, the work of the deputies on the way to the National Struggle was also mentioned. When the period is evaluated as a whole, it is seen that Hacı Mustafa Efendi, one of the Ankara deputies, was in a very tremendously active work in the parliament. Unlike Hacı Mustafa Efendi It is understood that Ahmet Rüstem Bey did not participate in any legislative activities. However Rüstem Bey played an important role in determining the foreign policy followed by the Parliament.

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