Suat Hayri Ürgüplü

Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (13 August 1903 – 26 December 1981) was a Turkish politician who served a brief term as Prime Minister of Turkey in 1965. He was also the last Prime Minister to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey, being born in Damascus, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Early life

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 Ürgüplü Hayri Efendi, Minister of Religious Affairs under the Committee of Union and Progress (or Young Turk) regime of 1913–1918.

Career

After a brief career as a judge, Ürgüplü entered the Turkish Parliament in 1939 and served as Minister of Customs and Public Monopolies in the Şükrü Saracoğlu cabinet in 1947–1948. He returned to the Senate of Turkey in 1961 and was its chairman from 27 November 1963 to 6 November 1963. Ürgüplü was asked to form a non-partisan caretaker cabinet after the collapse of Prime Minister İsmet İnönü'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.

Death Ürgüplü died on 27 December 1981 in Istanbul and was interred at the Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery.

Issue His son, Hayri Ürgüplü (born 31 May 1936), married Princess Sabiha Fazile Ibrahim Hanımsultan of Egypt in Paris, France, on 10 April 1965. The couple had two sons: Ali Suad Ürgüplü (born 28 September 1967) and Mehmed Selim Ürgüplü (born 31 October 1968). The couple divorced on 24 September 1980.