Ahmet İhsan Tokgöz (1868–1942) was a Turkish bureaucrat, politician, writer and sports official. In the pre-1930s era he had the Ottoman title "

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Biography

He was born in

Erzurum Erzurum (; ) is a List of cities in Turkey, city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the largest city and capital of Erzurum Province and is 1,900 meters (6,233 feet) above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 367,250 in 2010. It is the site of an ...

. He completed his primary and secondary education in Shkodra and

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. In 1887, he graduated from the Faculty of Law. He became interested in literature during his school years and translated translations from French, especially

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. The year he finished the estate, he published a fifteen-day magazine, Umran. He worked as a translator at the Translation Office of the

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. At the same time, he started to work in ''Servet'' newspaper in 1888. In 1890, he left the Tophane Müşirliği and became a partner in the 'Realm Printing House 18. On March 27, 1891, he began to publish the weekly ''

Servet-i Fünun ''Servet-i Fünun'' (; ) was an avant-garde journal published in the Ottoman Empire and later in Turkey. Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, Halit Ziya (Uşaklıgil) and the other writers of the "New Literature" () movement published it to inform their reade ...

'' magazine. In 1907, the company was renamed as Ahmet İhsan Matbaası by the separation of its partners. In 1907 he joined the

Committee of Union and Progress The Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress (CUP, also translated as the Society of Union and Progress; , French language, French: ''Union et Progrès'') was a revolutionary group, secret society, and political party, active between 1889 and 1926 ...

. After the

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, ''Servet-i Fünun'' was transformed into a daily political newspaper. In 1909 ''Servet-i Fünun'' began to be published again weekly. In the same year, he continued to teach the economic geography courses he started in the Trade School until 1915. In 1912, he served as the mayor of Beyoğlu for fourteen months. In 1917, he began to publish ''Le Soir'' in French. In 1924 he re-established ''Servet-i Fünun'' which he had interrupted during the armistice. In 1931, he was elected as a member of the parliament, in the meanwhile he continued to publish his journal until his death.

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1868 births 1942 deaths Place of death missing People from Erzurum Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians Committee of Union and Progress politicians Turkish male writers Turkish translators Writers from the Ottoman Empire {{Turkey-politician-stub