İbrahim Tali Öngören

İbrahim Tali Öngören (1875–1952) was a Turkish military officer and politician.

İbrahim Tali Öngören

Education and early life

He attended the medical academy of the Ottoman military and during the Turco-Italian war he was deployed to Tripolitania where he met Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) in 1911. He was stationed in Diyarbakır during World War I, where the two met once more in 1916.[1] He became an adherent to the Kemalist ideology and was one of the military officers who supported Mustafa Kemal from the start of the Turkish War of Independence.[2] and accompanied Atatürk on his journey to Samsun in 1919.[3]

Political career

After Turkey was created in 1923, he was appointed the Turkish ambassador to Poland from June 1924 to January 1926.[4] Later he was involved in the Turkification process of the Turkish territory, which included a large Kurdish population in the eastern provinces.[5] In 1927, he was appointed the Inspector General of the First Inspectorate General,[6] which span over several provinces with a Kurdish majority and was established as a reaction to the Kurdish led Sheikh Said Rebellion.[7] As an Inspector General, he had wide-ranging authority in the eastern provinces and was able to deport and resettle people he thought would not fit in the area according to the policies outlined of the Report for Reform on the East.[1] Öngören supervised the implemetation of a new Five-Year plan for Security and Disarmament which was announced in April 1932. The soldiers of the Seventh Army of Turkey were involved in the plan due to expected battles. By the end of the year, Tali Öngören mentioned that thousands of weapons were confiscated in the campaign and Şükrü Kaya, the Minister of the Interior at the time, elaborated detailed reports about the weapons confiscated.[8] In January 1933 Öngören resigned from the post as Inspector-General[9] and was succeeded by Hilmi Ergeneli who served until 1935.[10] In 1934 he was appointed the Inspector General of the newly established Second Inspectorate General in the western provinces of Turkey.[2] In May and June 1934, he traveled through the provinces under his domain and prepared a report concerning the population of the provinces which included a significant Jewish population at the time.[2] He presented his report about the journey to the Ministry of the Interior, which blamed the Jews of being involved in labor unions and also exploiting the Turkish population in the region.[2] Due to health reasons, Öngören had to resign from the Inspectorate General in August 1935.[11] He died on the 2 January 1952.[12]

Personal life

Ibrahim Tali Öngören was married and had three children.[12]

References
  1. Üngör, Ugur Ümit (2012-03-01). The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950. OUP Oxford. pp. 144–145. ISBN 978-0-19-164076-6.
  2. Eligür, Banu (2017). "The 1934 anti-Jewish Thrace riots: the Jewish exodus of Thrace through the lens of nationalism and collective violence" (PDF). British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. p. 96–97. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  3. "1919- 1920 Osmanlı ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti tarihinde çok çok önemli bir tarihi sayfa". TÜRK BİLİMİ TURKS SCİENCE | TÜRK DÜNYASI BİLİM YAYINLARI (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  4. "T.C. Dışişleri Bakanlığı Turkish Embassy In Warsaw". warsaw.emb.mfa.gov.tr. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  5. Üngör, Umut. "Young Turk social engineering : mass violence and the nation state in eastern Turkey, 1913- 1950" (PDF). University of Amsterdam. p. 284. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  6. Üngör, Umut. "Young Turk social engineering : mass violence and the nation state in eastern Turkey, 1913- 1950" (PDF). University of Amsterdam. p. 258. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  7. Bayir, Derya (2016-04-22). Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law. Routledge. pp. 139–141. ISBN 978-1-317-09579-8.
  8. Üngör, Ugur Ümit (2012). "Rethinking the Violence of Pacification: State Formation and Bandits in Turkey, 1914-1937". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 54 (4): 759–769. doi:10.1017/S0010417512000400. JSTOR 23274550 – via JSTOR.
  9. Koçak, Cemil (2003). Umumi müfettişlikler: (1927-1952) (in Turkish). İletişim. p. 83. ISBN 978-975-05-0129-6.
  10. Cagaptay, Soner (2006-05-02). Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk?. Routledge. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-134-17448-5.
  11. "Edirne'ye Büyük emekleri geçen Trakya Bölge Valisi; Kazım DİRİK | | Edirne Tarihi" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  12. "İbrahim Tali Öngören". www.biyografya.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.