Ahmet Hamdi Apaydın

Ahmet Hamdi Apaydın (1862 – 28 October 1936) was a Turkish politician. His name during the Ottoman era was Miralayzade Ahmet Hamdi (Ahmet Hamdi, the son of the Colonel) But after the Surname Law in Turkey in 1934, he took the surname Apaydın and dropped the epithet Miralayzade.

Life He was born in Erzurum in 1862 during the Ottoman Empire era. His father Hasan was a colonel in the Ottoman army. He completed his primary education in Erzurum and secondary education in Sivas and Amasya. He began his professional life as a clerk in 1881. Next year he voluntarily attended the army. But he resigned from the army in 1894 while he was a lieutenant. In 1897, he returned to his former profession as the chief clerk in the royal farm's directorate. During the First World War he established an institution for the orphans of the war.

He was married and the father of a daughter and three sons. He died on 28 October 1936 in Amasya. In the parliament he was elected to the committee of Finance. After the war, he did not run for the next elections held in 1923 and returned to Amasya.