26 Facts About Ali Kemal

Ali Kemal was a Turkish journalist, politician and writer.

Ali Kemal was born in 1867 in the Suleymaniye district of Istanbul.

Ali Kemal's mother Hanife Fered was a Circassian, reputedly of slave origin.

Ali Kemal attended the Mekteb-i Mulkiye, the Civil Service School, in Istanbul.

Ali Kemal left the institution in the last year of the four-year term and went to Paris in 1886 to improve his French.

Ali Kemal again attempted to establish another association, but was caught and imprisoned for nine months.

Ali Kemal defected with him, and he was appointed as deputy secretary of the Ottoman Embassy in Brussels.

Ali Kemal did not return to Istanbul because he was afraid of how the CUP would react.

Ali Kemal managed a farm belonging to an Egyptian prince in Cairo, where he established and edited a weekly magazine, Turk, from 1903 and 1907.

Ali Kemal returned to Istanbul the day before the declaration of the Second Constitutional Monarchy.

Ali Kemal joined the Liberty Party, the CUP's main opposition.

Ali Kemal was unanimously adopted as the Liberty Party's candidate for the 1909 Istanbul by-election at a party meeting on 9 March 1909, though he lost to the CUP's candidate, Mehmed Rifat Pasha.

Ali Kemal had to flee to Paris again as Unionist forces dispatched from Salonica were about to enter Istanbul to restore order.

Ali Kemal stayed with his mother-in-law Margaret Brun and with his children, first in Christchurch, near Bournemouth, and then in Wimbledon, London, until 1912, when he returned to the Ottoman Empire after that year's anti-Unionist coup d'etat.

On his return from exile, Ali Kemal gave a speech in favour of a war against the Balkan League in Istanbul on 3 October 1912.

Ali Kemal briefly published in a new newspaper that he founded as its editor-in-chief, Peyam, though it was shuttered under CUP pressure.

Ali Kemal became the general secretary of the Freedom and Accord Party, which was reestablished on 14 January 1919.

Ali Kemal was appointed Minister of Education in the first Damat Ferid Pasha government established on 4 March 1919, and as Minister of Interior in the second Ferid Pasha government established immediately after his attempted resignation in May While Kemal was in this position, he issued orders against the National Forces of Mustafa Kemal Pasha.

Ali Kemal resigned from the ministry on 26 June 1919 following a disagreement within the government.

Ali Kemal thought of Mustafa Kemal's movement as a continuation of the CUP.

Ali Kemal was a member of the Ottoman delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in June 1919.

Ali Kemal had resigned between the filing of the report and its publication in The Times on 3 July 1919.

Ali Kemal condemned the events of the Armenian genocide and inveighed against the Unionist chieftains as the authors of that crime, relentlessly demanding their prosecution and punishment.

Ali Kemal was attacked and lynched, stoned to death by a group of paramilitary officers set up by Nureddin.

Johnson's son Boris Johnson, Ali Kemal's great-grandson, became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 24 July 2019.

Ali Kemal is the great-grandfather of his siblings including Rachel, Jo, and Julia Johnson.