Fuat Umay

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Mehmet Fuat Umay
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Personal details
Born1885
Kırklareli, Ottoman Empire
Died1963
Istanbul
NationalityOttoman, Turkish
Political partyCHP

Mehmet Fuat Umay (1885 – 1963) was a Turkish physician,[1] member of parliament, and politician, who was known to tour the United States after the Turkish War of Independence, in an attempt to raise donations for the orphans in Turkey.[2][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Mehmet Fuad Umay".
  2. ^ Gönül Pultar; Louis Mazzari; Belma Ötüş Baskett (2019). The Turkish-American Conundrum: Immigrants and Expatriates between Politics and Culture. Cambridge Scholar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-2428-6.
  3. ^ Libal, Kathryn (2016). "Child Poverty and Emerging Children's Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey". Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After. Brill. pp. 48–72. JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1jx.7.