Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (13 August 1903, Damascus

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, Ottoman Empire

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 – 27 December 1981, Istanbul

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, Turkey

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) was a Turkish

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 political figure. He served a brief term as prime minister of Turkey in 1965.

Biography

Ürgüplü graduated from Galatasaray High School. He was the descendant of a distinguished line of Ottoman religious scholars and administrators. His father was the celebrated Sheikh ul-Islam

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 Ürgüplü Hayri Efendi, minister of religious affairs under the Committee of Union and Progress

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 (or Young Turk) regime of 1913-1918.

Career

After a brief career as a judge, Ürgüplü entered the Parliament in 1939 and served as Minister of Customs and Public Monopolies in the Şükrü Saracoğlu

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 cabinet in 1947-1948. He returned to the senate of Parliament in 1961 and was its chairman November 27, 1963–November 6, 1963. Ürgüplü was asked to form a non-partisan caretaker cabinet after the collapse of Premier İsmet İnönü

Ismet Inönü

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's coalition government in 1965. The cabinet was formed on 5 February, and served until the parliamentary elections of 10 October, although it never received a vote of confidence in Parliament.

Ürgüplü continued to serve in the senate until 1972. He died on 27 December 1981 in Istanbul and was interred at the
Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery

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