Autograph letter signed 'Numan', addressed to Ahmed Ihsan Bey [Tokgöz], (1868-1942), who was a Turkish publisher, translator.

NUMAN MENEMENCIOGLU, (Turkish diplomat and politician), (1893-1958). Dated Ankara, August 13, [1]929, Ankara. Original manuscript autograph letter signed by Numan Menemencioglu, (1893-1958), as 'Hariciye Müstesâri', addressed to Ahmed Ihsan Bey [Tokgöz], (1868-1942), who was a Turkish publisher, translator. 20x14 cm. In Ottoman script. 1 p. on bifolium. Fourteen lines with extra autograph annotations. Hüseyin Numan Menemencioglu was a Turkish diplomat and politician. His father, Rifat, from the Aydin Province (west Turkey), was a civil servant and a Minister of Finance in the Ottoman Empire. His mother Feride, of Albanian origin, was the daughter of Namik Kemal, a well-known 19th-century intellectual. During his father's various service places, he was born in Baghdad (now in Iraq), graduated from the junior high school in Thessaloniki (now in Greece), and graduated from the high school in Istanbul. Then he traveled abroad to study in the law school of Lausanne University. After graduat