Chaim (Haim) Nahum Effendi (1872–1960) was a Turkish Jewish scholar,jurist,and linguist of the early 20th century.
Zeki Kuneralp was a Turkish diplomat,who was brought up in exile in Switzerland after the murder of his father,Ali Kemal Bey,during the Turkish War of Independence. After his education he returned to Turkey and,with the express approval of President İsmet İnönü,entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At first taking up diplomatic posts throughout Europe,Kuneralp was later appointed Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland,the United Kingdom and Spain,as well as twice serving as Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry. He survived an assassination attempt which claimed the lives of his wife and her brother in Madrid in 1978. He retired,in part due to ill-health,in 1979,renouncing the world and current affairs,and turning his attention instead to writing and publishing. His autobiography was translated into English in 1992,while others of his books are considered important sources of twentieth century Turkish history. He died in Istanbul in 1998.
Ottoman casualties of World War I were the civilian and military casualties sustained by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Almost 1.5% of the Ottoman population,or approximately 300,000 people of the Empire's 21 million population in 1914,were estimated to have been killed during the war. Of the total 300,000 casualties,250,000 are estimated to have been military fatalities,with civilian casualties numbering over 50,000. In addition to the 50,000 civilian deaths,an estimated 1.5 million Armenians,750,000 Greeks,and 300,000 Assyrians were systematically targeted and killed by Turkish authorities either via the military or Kurdish gangs. Likewise,starting in 1916,Ottoman authorities forcibly displaced an estimated 700,000 Kurdish people westward,and an estimated 350,000 died from hunger,exposure,and disease.
Mehmed Şerif Pasha,a founding member of Kurd Society for Cooperation and Progress and representative of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan to the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920). He was a leading Kurdish nationalist.
Ahmet Muhtar Mollaoğlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician,who was the first ambassador of Turkey to the United States.
Ali Kemal Bey was a British-Turkish journalist,newspaper editor,poet,liberal-leaning politician,and government official who was for some three months Minister of the Interior in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha,the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He was murdered by paramilitary officers during the Turkish War of Independence.
Gregory "Ligor" Aristarchis,also known as Aristarchi Bey,was an Ottoman diplomat of Phanariote Greek ethnicity,compiler of a corpus of Ottoman legislation.
Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha was a mathematician from the Ottoman Empire and military adjutant representing the Ottoman Empire in the purchase of foreign rifles. He is remembered for his Linear Algebra which outlined some vector algebra including a "special perpendicular" and properties of curves. The book title was precocious since the early vector algebra was generalized in vector space,and this concept later produced linear algebra. He is known as Tawfiq Pasha of Vidin or as Vidinli Huseyin,Tawfiq Pasha in Turkish literature. He served as Envoy of the Ottoman Empire to the United States.
Hranoush Sidky Bey,better known as Madame Bey,also HranuşSıdki Hanım,was an American boxing trainer. She ran a boxing camp for world champion boxers in Chatham Township,New Jersey,in the United States. Her life and boxing camp are documented in the book Madame Bey's:Home to Boxing Legends. Her prominence during the time she operated her boxing camp from 1923 to 1942 is documented in the thousands of press photos taken at her camp. Forgotten today,her camp's namesake was an everyday occurrence in sports sections of newspapers.
The Palazzo Corpi is a 19th-century palazzo in Istanbul,Turkey. The historical building was built for Genoese merchant Ignazio Corpi by Italian architect Giacomo Leoni between 1873 and 1882. The property was bought by the United States government in 1907 to serve as the American embassy in Turkey,and from 1937 to 2003 the Palazzo Corpi housed the Consulate General of the United States of America in Turkey. The US government leased the building in 2014 to Soho House,which currently occupies the structure. The palazzo holds the distinction of being the first diplomatic premises owned by the United States government in Europe,as well as being one of the first diplomatic buildings to be purchased by the United States.
Ahmet Rüstem Bey (1862–1934),born Alfred Bilinski,was an Ottoman diplomat who served as last Ottoman ambassador to the United States in 1914. Despite neither of his parents being ethnically Turkish,he himself was an ardent Turkish nationalist. He was "exceptionally high-strung and outspoken" and had a "propensity to challenge people to duels". Prior to his appointment as ambassador,he had already served twice in the United States capital,both times leaving in a hurry.
The relations between the Ottoman Empire and the United States have a long history having its roots even before the American independence since there was a actually a running trade between these two regions. After the American independence in 1776,the first relations between these two countries started through the contact between the American merchants,statesmen and lastly the Navy and North African countries and with the Ottoman Empire after 1780.
Edouard Blak Bey a.k.a. Edouard Blacque (1824–1895) was the first minister of the Ottoman Empire to the United States.
Ali Ferruh Bey was an Ottoman Empire envoy to the United States. Sinan Kuneralp,author of "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States of America,1867–1917," described him as the most well-known Ottoman envoy to the U.S.
Spyridon Mavrogenis Pasha,in Turkish known as Ispiro Mavroyani,was a Phanariot Greek doctor who was the physician of Abdul Hamid II,Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Constantinos Trompoukis and John Lascaratos described him as "a prolific scholar". He was fluent in Greek,French,and German.
Fahreddin Reşad Bey,also known as Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey and Rumbeyoglu Fahr al-Din Bey,(1867–1943) was an Ottoman diplomat and politician,who served as minister of education and minister of justice in the last Ottoman government.
Mustafa Shekib Bey,sometimes spelled Chekib,was an envoy of the Ottoman Empire to the United States.
The House of Mavrogheni or Mavrogenis is the name of the Romanian noble family of Greek origin,whose members occupied many important positions in Paros,Mykonos,Crete,Ikaria,Constantinople,Principality of Samos,as well as in Wallachia,Moldavia and in the Kingdom of Romania.
