Ali Kemal | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 4 March 1919 – 20 June 1919 | |
| Monarch | Mehmed VI |
| Prime Minister | Damat Ferid Pasha |
| Preceded by | Mehmed Ali Bey |
| Succeeded by | Adil Bey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 September 1869 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 6 November 1922 (aged 53) İzmit, Ottoman Empire |
| Resting place | İzmit, Turkey[1] |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Political party | Freedom and Accord Party Liberty Party |
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| Children | 4, including Wilfred Johnson |
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Ali Kemal Bey (7 September 1869 – 6 November 1922) was a Turkish journalist, writer, poet, and liberal politician. He was Minister of the Interior for some three months in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. In the weeks following the Turkish victory in the Greco-Turkish War, he was lynched by Nureddin Pasha's paramilitary officers for his opposition to the Turkish National Movement.
Kemal is the father of Zeki Kuneralp, who was the former Turkish ambassador in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Spain. In addition, he is the paternal grandfather of both the Turkish diplomat Selim Kuneralp, and the British politician Stanley Johnson. Through Johnson, Ali Kemal is the great-grandfather of former British prime minister Boris Johnson and his siblings.
- ^ Çetintaş, Cengiz (2022). CUMHURİYET'İN SEKİZİNCİ YILI 1931: TBMM Tutanakları Yıllığı [THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPUBLIC, 1931: GNAT Minutes Yearbook] (in Turkish). p. 308.
Cesedi Lozan Konferansi'na giderken trenle Izmit'ten gececek olan İsmet Paşa görsün diye istasyonda bir sehpaya asıldı. İsmet İnönü'nün bu durum karşısında sinirlenmesi üzerine Ali Kemal'in bedeni apar topar kaldırıldı. İzmit'te defnedilen Ali Kemal'in mezarı başına bir mezar taşı veya herhangi bir işaret konulmaması sebebiyle zamanla ortadan kayboldu ve uzun araştırmalar sonunda 1950'lerde yeri tespit edilebildi. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Ali Kemal'in öldürülüş şeklinden tiksinerek bahsederdi.