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Saracoğlu, Şükrü

Şükrü Saracoğlu was the sixth prime minister of Turkey.

Person

  • Şükrü Saracoğlu

Saracoğlu studied in Belgium and Switzerland, among other countries, and he became a member of the Turkish parliament in 1923. He was prime minister from July 1942 to August 1946.[1] In his speech on 17 March 1943, he referred explicitly to “English-Turkish friendship”.[2] This lead to the misunderstanding by those in the Secret Annex that Turkey was siding with the Allies. According to Anne, that thought was widely shared.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Şükrü_Saracoğlu.
  2. ^ “Verklaring van Saradjogloe”, De Tijd, 18 maart 1943.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Version B, 19 March 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. Anne refers to Saracoğlu as: a cabinet minister.