Hafız Mehmet
Turkish statesperson (1874–1926)
Hafız Mehmet (1874 – 13 July 1926) was a Turkish politician and the acting Minister of Justice for the Republic of Turkey. While serving as a deputy in Trabzon, he was a witness to the Armenian genocide. His testimony of the event is considered by genocide scholar Vahakn Dadrian as one of the "rarest corroborations of the fact of the complicity of governmental officials in the organization of the mass murder of Armenians". He was sentenced to death after the İzmir trials of 1926, charged with attempting to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Early life
Hafız Mehmet was born in the Ottoman Empire in the village of Sürmene located near Trabzon in 1874. He was the son of Hacı Yakubzâde Ahmed Ağa. He received his early education in local schools near Trabzon. Mehmet moved to Istanbul to study law, where he ultimately attained a degree in law. He served as a lawyer throughout the Ottoman Empire.
In the 1912 and 1914 Young Turk elections, Hafız Mehmet was elected as a deputy who represented Trabzon.
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