- January 16 1933 Istanbul

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) was a Turkish

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 politician

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 of Ossetia

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n origin. He served as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. He was in office during 1920-1921.

He was a child of Musa Kunduh Pasha who was a Northern Ossetian general in the Russian Imperial Army who had immigrated to the Ottoman Empire

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. He earned his Baccalaureate from Galatasaray High School and went to Paris

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 to study political sciences.

He worked at the Turkish embassy at St. Petersburg and then was appointed as Mutasarrıf

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 of Amasya

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. Later in his career he served successively as governor of Van

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, Trabzon

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, Bursa, Beirut

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 and Halep. His last appointment before the Armistice of Mudros

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 was as governor of Beirut.

After being summoned by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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, he travelled to Anatolia to join the Turkish War of Independence

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.
After the Sivas Congress

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 and Erzurum Congress

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, he joined the ranks of Turkish revolutionaries negotiating the Amasya Protocol

Amasya Protocol

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 and became one of its signatories.
He was present at the last term of the Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire

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 as Amasya deputy and after the dissolution he went to Ankara and joined the newly-founded Grand National Assembly of Turkey

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.

He became the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. With this title, he led the commissions to the Soviet Union

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 and the Conference of London

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 of 1921-22. In the London conference, he had discussions with representatives of the Triple Entente

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 on the subject of Malta exiles

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. But the protocols he made with the Entente did not properly take into account Turkish sovereignty in the eyes of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, as there had been no governmental approval on this subject. After his return to Ankara, he resigned his office on May 8, 1921.

He was one of the founders of the Progressive Republican Party of Turkey. After the dissolution of the party because of the assassination attempt against Mustafa Kemal in İzmir

Izmir

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, he was tried and acquitted.

He died in İstanbul

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in 1933.