Ali Nayip Zade () was a
Cretan Muslim who served in high administrative posts in
Greece
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.
Biography
Nayip Zade was a personal friend to
Eleftherios Venizelos a
Liberal Cretan politician and
Prime Minister of Greece
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, Nayip Zade was appointed as the first Prefect of
Drama
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and
Kavala in 1913 by him. During Greece's expansion in the wake of the
Balkan Wars
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and after
World War I
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Venizelos, anxious to secure the acquiescence to Greek rule the goodwill of the large Muslim populations of
Macedonia and
Thrace
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, often appointed Cretan Muslims he knew and trusted to senior administrative posts in areas with a heavy Muslim presence. In 1919, Nayip Zade occupied a senior post in the administration of the
Smyrna Zone, before being appointed Prefect of
Adrianople, and subsequently Prefect of
Lasithi in Crete, a post he kept until the compulsory
Greco-Turkish population exchange of 1923.
References
Sources
* {{cite book , first = Konstantinos , last = Tsitselikis , title = Old and New Islam in Greece: From Historical Minorities to Immigrant Newcomers , series = Studies in International Minority and Group Rights , publisher = Martinus Nijhoff Publishers , year = 2012 , isbn = 978-90-04-22152-9 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FdqRdctzEXcC
20th-century Greek people
Cretan Turks
Prefects of Greece
History of Greece (1909–1924)
People from Crete