İnönü, İsmet

İnönü, İsmet
born Sept. 24, 1884, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
died Dec. 25, 1973, Ankara, Tur.

Turkish army officer and statesman.

On the surrender of the Ottoman Empire in World War I (1918), he was undersecretary of war. He became prime minister in 1923, and president and permanent chairman of the Republican People's Party in 1938 on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's death. In 1950 he was replaced as president by Celâl Bayar and led the opposition, assuming the role of defender of democracy. Following a 1960 coup d'état, he formed three coalition governments, but in the 1965 and 1969 elections his party suffered overwhelming defeats.

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▪ president of Turkey
born Sept. 24, 1884, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
died Dec. 25, 1973, Ankara

      Turkish army officer, statesman, and collaborator with and successor to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Atatürk, Kemal) as president of the Turkish Republic. Identified with one-party rule between 1939 and 1946, he later emerged as a champion of democracy.

      İsmet served on the general staff of the 3rd Army at Edirne and as chief of staff of the army in Yemen. During World War I, he commanded the 4th Army in Syria (1916), and, at the time of the Ottoman surrender (Oct. 30, 1918), he was the undersecretary of war in Constantinople. Later he joined Mustafa Kemal's movement to resist the Allied occupation of Anatolia. In 1920 he was elected to the last Ottoman Parliament as deputy for Edirne. After the Greek occupation of western Anatolia, he was appointed chief of the general staff of the nationalist army and repelled the invaders in the two battles of İnönü (near Ankara) in January and April 1921. From those engagements he later took his surname.

      Appointed foreign minister in the government of the Grand National Assembly in Ankara in 1922, İsmet succeeded, with the support of Mustafa Kemal, in gaining most of the Turkish demands in the Treaty of Lausanne (Lausanne, Treaty of) (Switz.; July 24, 1923). When the republic was proclaimed on Oct. 29, 1923, İsmet became the prime minister. He remained in power until 1937.

      On Atatürk's death on Nov. 10, 1938, İnönü was elected president and became the permanent chairman of the Republican People's Party (RPP). During World War II, Turkey, under his adroit leadership, remained neutral. In the postwar period, however, in response to internal strains and to the Western pressures for a democratic regime, he encouraged the formation of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1946, which defeated the RPP in the elections of 1950. İnönü was replaced as president by Celâl Bayar and led the opposition (1950–60), assuming the role of defender of democracy.

      Following the 1960 military coup d'etat, which overthrew the DP government, İnönü formed three coalition governments between 1961 and 1965, but in the general elections of 1965 and 1969 his party suffered overwhelming defeats. During this period İnönü was criticized by the Kemalist and Socialist factions within RPP for the compromises he made with the coalition partners and with the conservatives. Under these pressures he declared his ideological stance as “left of centre,” alienating the centrists in his party, who formed the Reliance Party (Güven Partisi) in 1967. İnönü himself, however, was replaced in 1972 as RPP leader by Bülent Ecevit, the head of the leftist faction.

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