Hüseyin Numan Menemencioğlu (1893–1958) was a Turkish

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and politician.

Biography

His father, Rıfat, from the

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(west

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), was a civil servant and a Minister of Finance in the

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. His mother Feride, of Albanian origin, was the daughter of

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, a well known 19th-century intellectual. During his father's various service places, he was born in

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, graduated from the junior high school in Salonika (now

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). He graduated from high school in Istanbul. After graduation, he began serving in the foreign office of the Ottoman Empire. After the

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by the

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, he began serving for the newly founded Turkey. He served in

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, and

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. After 1929 he was named as the secretary general of the Ministry. He was a brilliant diplomat and he participated in such negotiations like the Straits ıssue ( Treaty of Montreux) and Hatay issue (

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). He went into politics and was elected as the

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deputy from

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. Between 9 July 1942 and 16 June 1944, in the

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and the

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, he was appointed

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. His term coincided with the

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. After politics, he resumed his diplomatic mission and was appointed as the ambassador to France and then Portugal. After retirement, he returned to politics in the 1957 general elections and was elected as a Democrat Party MP from

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. However, he soon died, on 15 February 1958,Parliament page p.205 (
in Istanbul.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Menemencioglu, Numan 20th-century diplomats 1893 births 1958 deaths Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Ambassadors of Turkey to France Ambassadors of Turkey to Portugal Turkish political people Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1961) politicians