Emmanouil Emmanouilidis
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Emmanouil Emmanouilidis (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Εμμανουηλίδης; 1867–1943) was an Ottoman Greek and Greek jurist and politician. He was a representative for the Committee of Union and Progress during the Second Constitutional Era.[1][2][3] He served in the Chamber of Deputies from Izmir and was one of the deputies who criticized the press law of 1915.[4]
Biography
Emmanouilidis Efendi graduated from Istanbul Law School. He worked as a jurist in Izmir and Athens. He was a member of the Greek Elders' Council [Rum İhtiyar Kurulu] in Izmir several times. As the editor-in-chief of the Izmir Aktis magazine, he defended the use of Demotic Greek and earned the hostility of the conservatives who advocated the re-imposition of Katharevousa and the enactment of this language in the Greek parliament. When Aristidi Pasha was appointed as a member of the Senate on 31 January 1911, Emmanouilidis was elected as a deputy of İzmir. In the 1912 elections, he was reelected as a deputy of İzmir and in the 1914 elections, he was elected as a representative of Aydın.[5]
After the Greco-Turkish War, he had to move to Athens and in the 1923 parliamentary elections, he was elected as the full-fledged representative of Athens-Piraeus. He served as the vice-president of the Greek Parliament from 6 November 1927 to 9 July 1928. He became a member of parliament for Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party and served as Minister of Health in the 1928, June 1929 and December 1929 Venizelos governments.[6]
A street bears his name in Nea Smyrni.[7]
Published works
He wrote many books, the most notable of which is:
- Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun Son Yılları [The Last Years of the Ottoman Empire]