Mehmet Fuat Köprülü aka Köprülüzade, who traced his descent from the illustrious Köprülü family, was a Turkish

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 politician

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 and historian

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, known for his contributions to Ottoman

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 history, Turkish folklore and language.

Biography

A founding member of the Democratic Party

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 along with Celal Bayar

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, Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes was the first democratically elected Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey. He was hanged by the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet...

, and Refik Koraltan

Refik Koraltan

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, Köprülü served under Menderes as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1950 to 1955 and briefly as Deputy Prime Minister in 1956.

Works

As a historian his works included "Origins Of the Ottoman Empire", "The Seljuks of Anatolia

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: Their History and Culture According to Local Muslim

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 Sources" and "Islam in Anatolia After the Turkish Invasion: Prolegomena". He is also the founder of one of the perspectives which try to understand the rise of the Ottoman tribe and the direction of its expansion. A "Mehmet Fuat Koprulu Scholarship Programme" has recently been set up to provide funds for Turkish students to undertake PhD

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 study at the University of Cambridge

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.

Works

• Yeni Osmanlı Tarih-i Edebiyatı (1916)
• Türk Edebiyatında İlk Mutasavvıflar (1919–1966)
• Nasrettin Hoca (1918–1981)
• Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi (1920)
• Türkiye Tarihi (1923)
• Bugünkü Edebiyat (1924)
• Azeri Edebiyatına Ait Tetkikler (1926)
• Milli Edebiyat Cereyanının İlk Mübeşşirleri ve Divan-ı Türk-i Basit (1928)
• Türk Saz Şairleri Antolojisi (1930–1940, üç cilt)
• Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Hakkında Araştırmalar (1934)
• Anadolu’da Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı’nın Tekamülüne Bir Bakış (1934)
• Osmanlı Devleti’nin Kuruluşu (1959)
• Edebiyat Araştırmaları Külliyatı (1966)
• İslam ve Türk Hukuk Tarihi Araştırmaları ve Vakıf Müessesesi (1983)