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Celâl Bayar

1883 - 1986

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Mahmut Celâlettin "Celâl" Bayar (16 May 1883 – 22 August 1986) was a Turkish economist and politician who was the third president of Turkey from 1950 to 1960. He previously served as the prime minister of Turkey from 1937 to 1939. Bayar began his career in the Committee of Union and Progress, establishing its Izmir and Bursa branches. Following the declaration of the Republic, he founded much of Turkey's early financial institutions, including the country's first bank, İş Bankası. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Celâl Bayar is the 2,475th most popular politician (down from 1,804th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 234th in 2019) and the 154th most popular Turkish Politician.

Celâl Bayar is most famous for being the first president of the Turkish Republic. He was also a member of the Republican People's Party, which was the dominant party in Turkey from 1923 to 1950.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Celâl Bayar ranks 2,475 out of 19,576Before him are Dagobert II, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Joanna II of Naples, Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, Rudolf I of Bohemia, and Mary of Guise. After him are Isetnofret, Tsai Ing-wen, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, King Zhuangxiang of Qin, Jill Biden, and Zhu De.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Celâl Bayar ranks 31Before him are Semyon Budyonny, Maurice Utrillo, Napoleon Hill, Mohammed Nadir Shah, Wang Jingwei, and Andrey Vyshinsky. After him are Johannes Blaskowitz, Angela Hitler, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Douglas Fairbanks, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, and Peter Kürten. Among people deceased in 1986, Celâl Bayar ranks 26Before him are Alva Myrdal, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Moore, Michael J. Smith, Leonid Kantorovich, and Georges Dumézil. After him are Jaroslav Seifert, Harold Macmillan, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Chiune Sugihara, Erich Koch, and Benny Goodman.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Celâl Bayar ranks 285 out of 1,347Before him are Lydia of Thyatira (100), Tansu Çiller (1946), Ctesias (-440), Seleucus II Callinicus (-265), Alexander of Aphrodisias (200), and Vitiges (475). After him are Eumenes (-362), Strato of Lampsacus (-335), Germanus I of Constantinople (634), Heraclides Ponticus (-385), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948), and John VII Palaiologos (1370).

Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Celâl Bayar ranks 154Before him are Phorcys (null), Anchises (null), Dardanus (null), Michael IX Palaiologos (1277), Seleucus II Callinicus (-265), and Vitiges (475). After him are Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948), John VII Palaiologos (1370), Andronikos IV Palaiologos (1348), Julius Martov (1873), Tudḫaliya IV (-1300), and Necmettin Erbakan (1926).