28 Facts About Emin Arslan

Emin Arslan was a Lebanese author, journalist, editor and consul.

Emin Arslan was the Consul General of the Ottoman Empire in Bordeaux, Brussels, Paris and Buenos Aires.

Emin Arslan authored books and articles in Arabic, Spanish and French.

Emin Arslan initially supported the ideas of the Young Turks, who favoured a reform so as to restore the Ottoman constitution of 1876 and the parliament and grant rights to all the individuals and nations of the Empire.

Emin Arslan denounced the extermination of Armenians from the review he founded and edited, La Nota, in August 1915.

Emin Arslan was born in Choueifat, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire.

Emin Arslan belonged to a distinguished Druze family whose members hold traditionally the title of Druze Emirs until today.

Emin Arslan had three brothers: Nouhad, Fouad, Sa'id and Tawfiq.

Emin Arslan resigned in 1893 after a conflict with the mutasarrif Na'um Pasa.

At those times Emin Arslan frequented French writer Jules Claretie and they assisted together at the fourth International Press Congress in Stockholm in 1897.

Emin Arslan finally agreed and was designated Consul General in Bordeaux.

Since the 1897 "truce" Emin Arslan was designated Consul General of the Ottoman Empire in Bordeaux and almost immediately transferred to Brussels, where he stayed at office until 1908.

In Belgium Emin Arslan befriended Roland de Mares, director of L'independance belge newspaper, and jurist Ernest Nys.

Emin Arslan pointed out that, unable to bear the heavy burden of taxation and the arbitrary methods of the farmers of revenue, they were cutting down their trees, tearing up their vines, leaving their lands uncultivated, and even emigrating in vast numbers beyond the seas.

Emin Arslan had to take care of his remnants and arrange their transport to Beyrouth.

Some European friends of Emin Arslan thought he was the victim.

Emin Arslan was designated Consul General in Paris in 1909.

Apparently Emin Arslan did not have good relations with Na'um; 17 years before, a conflict with him had caused his resignation as mudir and his exile.

Once Emin Arslan found out about the newly established consular relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Argentine Republic, he asked to be transferred to Buenos Aires.

Emir Emin Arslan was to be the first and only consul of the Ottoman Empire in Argentina, because in 1914 the Porte removed Arslan and the German Consulate assumed the representation of Ottoman interests in Argentina.

Since Emin Arslan was aware of that kind of criticism, right from his first press interviews he announced that he was going to favor the dedication of his fellows to agriculture.

Emin Arslan opposed the entry of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and his relation with the Ottoman Foreign Ministry was damaged.

Emin Arslan replied that he had not received an official communication from Constantinople ordering him to hand down consular documentation to a foreign official.

Emin Arslan founded and directed weekly La Nota, whose first issue was published on 14 August 1915.

Emin Arslan was a permanent contributor from 28 March until 21 November 1919.

In 1921, during the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, Emin Arslan acquired the Argentine citizenship and made public his reasons:.

Emin Arslan kept editing this newspaper until his demise in January 1943.

In 1926 Emin Arslan founded the Druze Benefit Society, currently known as Druze Benefit Association and located in Buenos Aires.