İsmail Safa Giray (1931 in İzmir, Turkey – June 20, 2011^[1]) was a Turkish civil engineer and politician of the Motherland Party (Turkish: Anavatan Partisi). He was a member of parliament and held positions as Minister of Public Works and Settlement,^[2] Minister of National Defense,^[3] and Minister of Foreign Affairs.^[4]

Early life and education[link]

Safa Giray was born in İzmir in 1931. He graduated in 1954 with a degree from the Faculty of Civil engineering at Istanbul Technical University.^[5]

Career[link]

Safa Giray entered politics in 1983 along with Turgut Özal from the beginnings of Motherland Party^[6] and was elected into the parliament as Deputy from Balıkesir Province.^[7] He held the office of Minister of Public Works and Settlement (December 13, 1983 – March 30, 1989) in two Turgut Özal cabinets,^[2] Minister of National Defense (March 30, 1989 – October 19, 1990) in the Yıldırım Akbulut cabinet. He resigned from the position because of inter-party and cabinet conflicts.^[3][8] Later, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs (June 23, 1991 – November 21, 1991) by Prime minister Mesut Yılmaz. He left politics in 1999 after 16 years.^[6]

In 1993, Safa Giray was accused of fraud and misuse of authority during his time of service as Minister of Public Works. He was tried before the Supreme Court^[9] in conjunction with the awarding of contracts for motorway construction.^[10] He was found not guilty and was acquitted on April 12, 1995.^[11]

Safa Giray died on June 20, 2011 in Ankara and was laid to rest at Gölbaşı Cemetery following a state funeral in front of the Turkish Grand National Assemnly and a religious funeral service at the Kocatepe Mosque.^[12]

References[link]

See also[link]

• Safa Giray (1510–1549) Khan of Kazan.

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Giray Kaçar

Personal information
Full name	Remzi Giray Kaçar
Date of birth	(1985-03-15) March 15, 1985 (age 27)
Place of birth	Karaman, Turkey
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Centre back
Club information
Current club	Trabzonspor
Number	23
Youth career
1993–2004	Gençlerbirliği
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2004–2008	Hacettepe SK	114	(8)
2008–	Trabzonspor	100	(5)
National team
2008–	Turkey	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 May 2012. † Appearances (Goals).

Remzi Giray Kaçar (born March 15, 1985 in Karaman, Turkey) is a Turkish footballer. He currently plays as a center-back for Trabzonspor.

Career[link]

Kaçar previously played for Gençlerbirliği at the youth level, before transferring to Trabzonspor in 2004.

He was called up to the national team on 6 February 2008 for a match against Sweden. He played 4 times for the U21 national team.

External links[link]

• Profile at TFF.org
• Profile at transfermarkt.de

References[link]

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Murat Gökhan Bardakçı (born 1955) is a Turkish journalist working on Ottoman history and Turkish music history. Besides he is a columnist in Habertürk newspaper.

Biography[link]

Bardakçı was born in 1955 in İstanbul. An economist by training, he was trained in Turkish classical music by some of the most-reputed contemporary masters, in tanbur and singing at first, with his primary interests directed more towards theory and musical history later. He published several researches on musical history (notably the biographies of the composers Abd al-Qadir Maraghi and Refik Fersan) and with the start of a journalistic career in Hürriyet, expanded the scope of his writings on Ottoman and general Islamic history, with marked emphasis on the 19th and the early-20th centuries. Two of his books on the end of the Ottoman dynasty, "Son Osmanlılar" (The Last Ottomans) and Şahbaba, a biography of Mehmed VI Vahideddin, became best-sellers in Turkey, the former also having been carried over to the screen in the form a TV serial.

He married Ayşegül Manav on 2009.^[1]

Recently, he co-hosts a history program with historian Erhan Afyoncu and a graduate of history, actress Pelin Batu in Haberturk TV.^[2]

[edit] Talat Pasha's Black Book

Murat Bardakçı is the editor of Talat Pasha's Black Book, Ottoman Minister of Interior (later grand vizier) Talat Pasha's recording of relocations of Turkish-Muslim and Armenian Christian Ottoman citizens in World War I conditions. Published by Bardakçı for the first time in 2005,^[3] they were handed over to him by Talat Pasha's widow, Hayriye Talat Bafralı, along with a batch of other documents comprising letters he had sent her and telegrammes exchanged between Committee of Union and Progress members. In April 2006, Bardakçı re-edited the black book in full, adding parts that were missing in the first publication. The 1915-1916 resettlements cited in Talat Pasha Black Book of 702,905 Turks from regions under threat of occupation by Russian forces and of 924,158 Armenians in accordance with 27 May 1915 Tehcir Law are qualified as exposing the genocide by one Armenian source which goes on to recall the clauses of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide.^[4] Nor do the cited figures fall in discordance with a 29 February 1916 letter sent to the US Secretary of State from the embassy in İstanbul reporting upon the number of Armenian immigrants (for Syria only).^[5]

Criticism of Wikipedia and disputes[link]

Bardakçı's view of history and arguments in his columns and programs lead to some disputes in Turkish media. Besides this, he is critical of the accuracy of Wikipedia. Giving the example of his own biography on Wikipedia having falsely put forward that he had 4 children, and emphasizing the negative implications of such an accessible source upon students' academic performance in the form of plagiarism, he declared Wikipedia should be banned.^[6]

Bibliography[link]

• Abd al-Qadir Maraghi, Pan Publishing, 1986, ISBN 2789757652035.
• The Last Ottomans & The Deportation and Heritage of Ottoman Dynasty, Pan Publishing - İnkılâp Bookstore, 1991, ISBN 975-10-2616-3.
• Royal Compositions (The Works of Last Sultan of the Ottomans, Mehmet Vahideddin VI), Pan Publishing, 1997, ISBN 975-7652-63-2.
• Turkish Songs for Fener Rulers, Pan Publishing, 1993, ISBN 975-7652-21-0.
• Sex in Ottomans, Gür Publishing - İnkılâp Bookstore, 1993, ISBN 975-10-2256-8.
• Mr. Refik (Refik Fersan and His Memories), Pan Publishing, 1995, ISBN 978-975-7652-36-6.
• Şahbaba: The Life, Memories and Private Letters of Last Sultan of the Ottomans, Mehmed VI Vahdeddin, Pan Publishing - İnkılâp Bookstore, 1998, ISBN 975-10-2453-6.
• The Abandoned Documents of Talât Pasha, Everest Publishing, 2009, ISBN 975-289-560-7.

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

• Archive of articles by Murat Bardakçı in the newspaper Sabah