Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda (29 November 1881 – 1 October 1957) was a Turkish civil servant and politician of Tosk Albanian descent.

Biography

Renda was born in Yanya, in the Janina Vilayet of the

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. Renda was of Albanian origin.. "(Renda). Bureaucrat of Albanian descent." From 1902 to 1918, he served in several towns and cities of the

as district governor and province governor. In 1918, he was exiled for six months to

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. Following his return, he was appointed undersecretary in the Ministry of Economy and then in the Ministry of Interior. He became Governor of Konya, before he was appointed the first Governor of İzmir after the Turkish forces re-captured the city from withdrawing Greek troops. During Renda's tenure as İzmir governor, politician Rıza Nur accused him on grounds of compatriot solidarity of encouraging Albanians (refugees and immigrants) to resettle from other Anatolian regions to İzmir, claims that Renda denied. From 1923 on, he was Deputy of

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for five consecutive terms. Mustafa Abdülhalik served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Defence in several cabinets from 1923 to 1935, and later from 1946 to 1948. After the

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of 1934, which required all Turkish citizens to adopt a surname, he took on the surname "Renda". He was elected Speaker of the

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on 1 March 1935, and served until 5 August 1946. During the early one-party period he emphasized on the need to

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the

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in the eastern provinces of Turkey. He was acting President of Turkey for one day after Atatürk's death in November 1938. Abdülhalik Renda died of a

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on 1 October 1957 in Erenköy,

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. He was laid to rest at the Cebeci Asri Cemetery in

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Armenian genocide

During the

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Abdülhalik Renda was responsible for the deportations and murder of the Armenians of Bitlis Vilayet. He also organized the defense in the western mountain range against the Russian offensive in 1914, but to no avail, the Russians captured Saray as well as Başkale. In 1916, Renda became governor of Aleppo where he was instrumental in the deportations of Armenians to their deaths in Der Zor. Rossler, the German consul on Aleppo, was quoted as saying that Renda was "working with great energy for the destruction of Armenians". General Vehip Pasha, commander of the Third Army, mentioned that Renda in his testimony to the Mazhar Commission, claimed that he burned thousands of people alive in the province of Mush.A.A. Turkei 158, vol. 48, A34435 October 1917

References

External links

* Biyografi.info
''Biography of Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda''
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