Suat Hayri Ürgüplü

Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (13 August 1903 – 26 December 1981) was a Turkish politician who served a brief term as Prime Minister of Turkey in 1965. He was also the last Prime Minister to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey, being born in Damascus, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Suat Hayri Ürgüplü
Ürgüplü in 1939
11th Prime Minister of Turkey
In office 20 February 1965 – 27 October 1965
President	Cemal Gürsel
Preceded by	İsmet İnönü
Succeeded by	Süleyman Demirel
President of the Senate of Turkey
In office 28 October 1961 – 6 November 1963
Succeeded by	Enver Aka
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office 14 May 1950 – 1952
In office 26 March 1939 – 21 July 1946
Constituency	Kayseri (1939, 1943, 1950)
Personal details
Born	(1903-08-13)13 August 1903 Damascus, Sanjak of Damascus, Syria Vilayet, Ottoman Empire[1]
Died	26 December 1981(1981-12-26) (aged 78) Istanbul, Turkey
Political party	Justice Party
Alma mater	Galatasaray High School Istanbul University Law School

Early life

Ürgüplü graduated from Galatasaray High School. He was the descendant of a distinguished line of Ottoman religious scholars and administrators. His father was the celebrated Sheikh ul-Islam Ürgüplü Hayri Efendi, minister of religious affairs under the Committee of Union and Progress (or Young Turk) regime of 1913–1918.

Career

After a brief career as a judge, Ürgüplü entered the Parliament in 1939 and served as Minister of Customs and Public Monopolies in the Şükrü Saracoğlu cabinet in 1947–1948. He returned to the Senate of Parliament in 1961 and was its Chairman from 27 November 1963 to 6 November 1963. Ürgüplü was asked to form a non-partisan caretaker cabinet after the collapse of Premier İsmet İnönü's coalition government in 1965. The cabinet was formed on 5 February, and served until the parliamentary elections of 10 October, although it never received a vote of confidence in Parliament. Ürgüplü continued to serve in the Senate until 1972.

Death

Ürgüplü died on 27 December 1981 in Istanbul^[2] and was interred at the Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery.

Issue

His son Hayri Ürgüplü (b. 31 May 1936) married in Paris, France, on 10 April 1965, Princess Sabiha Fazile Ibrahim Hanımsultan of Egypt.^[3] The couple had two sons: Ali Suad Ürgüplü (b. 28 September 1967) and Mehmed Selim Ürgüplü (b. 31 October 1968). The couple divorced on 24 September 1980.^[4]