Business card with autograph note.

Original business card (lawyer) of Suad Hayri Ürgüplü with autograph notes on the card. Size: 5,5x9 cm. In Turkish. Autograph note: 'Saygilarla tebrik eder'. Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü was a Turkish politician. He served a brief term as Prime Minister of Turkey in 1965. He was also the last Prime Minister to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey, being born in Damascus, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. Ürgüplü graduated from Galatasaray High School. He was the descendant of a distinguished line of Ottoman religious scholars and administrators. His father was the celebrated Sheikh ul-Islam Ürgüplü Hayri Efendi, minister of religious affairs under the Committee of Union and Progress (or Young Turk) regime of 1913-1918. After a brief career as a judge, Ürgüplü entered the Parliament in 1939 and served as Minister of Customs and Public Monopolies in the Sükrü Saracoglu cabinet in 1947-1948. He returned to the senate of Parliament in 1961 and was its chairman November 27, 1963 - November 6, 1963. Ürgüplü was asked to form a non-partisan caretaker cabinet after the collapse of Premier Ismet Inönü's coalition government in 1965. The cabinet was formed on 5 February, and served until the parliamentary elections of 10 October, although it never received a vote of confidence in Parliament. Ürgüplü continued to serve in the senate until 1972. He died on 27 December 1981 in Istanbul and was interred at the Edirnekapi Marty's Cemetary. (Source: Wikipedia).

Lingue: Turkish