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Mehmet Şükrü Saracoğlu (Turkish pronunciation: [ʃyˈcɾy saˈɾadʒoːɫu]; 1 January 1887, Ödemiş – 27 December 1953, Istanbul) was a Turkish politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey. He was also the chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. for 16 years between 1934-1950, including his time as prime minister as well.
Born in Ödemiş, in 1887, he is the son of Saraç (Lorimer) Mehmet Tevfik Usta. He completed the primary and middle school in Ödemiş, high school in the prestigious Izmir Ataturk Lisesi in Izmir and graduated from the School of Civil Service (Mekteb-i Mülkiye) halla in 1909. For a while, he worked as officer of attendance and performed as mathematics teacher in İzmir High School (Sultaniye). In 1915, he studied in the Academy of Political Sciences in Geneva, Switzerland for the account of İzmir.
After the Greek-Turkish war , he turned back to the homeland and established the struggle front in the region of Kuşadası, Aydın, Nazilli. He attended to the Grand National Assembly as İzmir Deputy in 1923; performed as Minister of Education in the cabinet of Fethi Okyar; and presided to the Commission for Composite Population Exchange that will conduct the negotiations with the Greek Government later on. He was appointed as the Minister of Finance in the third cabinet which was formed by İsmet Pasha. After seceding from the Ministry, he was sent to the US to complete some contacts about economic issues in 1931 and presided to the board going to Paris to solve the Ottoman Public Debt issues. In 1933, he reentered to the cabinet as the Minister of Justice and performed as the Foreign Minister at the first cabinet of Celal Bayar.