The first government of the Republic of Turkey
Elected president after the proclamation of the Republic, Gazi Mustafa Kemal assigned İsmet Pasha with the task of forming the government. The council of ministers İsmet Pasha quickly put together received a vote of confidence from the Grand National Assembly on October 30, 1923 and the first government of the Republic of Turkey was thus formed.
As the procedure for the governments to create a political program and present it to the Assembly had not yet been adopted, İsmet Pasha summarized their objectives as follows after the minister of councils he formed was read at the Assembly:
The government of the Republic will spare no effort to act more than speak and to instill trust in you and the nation through its actions and implementations. The method we adopt is perseverance and the will to work.
Active from the proclamation of the Republic until the abolition of the caliphate on March 3, 1924, the First Government of Turkey was comprised of the following names:
İsmet İnönü (Prime Minister); Mustafa Fevzi Sarhan (Minister of Religious Affairs); Mehmet Seyit Bey (Minister of Justice); Fevzi Çakmak (Chief of the General Staff; Kâzım Özalp (Minister of National Defense); Ahmet Ferit Tek (Minister of the Interior); İsmet İnönü (Minister of Foreign Affairs); Hasan Fehmi Ataç (Minister of Finance); Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda (Minister of Finance); İsmail Safa Özler (Minister of Education); Mustafa Necati Uğural (Minister of Exchange of Population, Public Works and Housing); Ahmet Muhtar Cilli (Minister of Public Works); Süleyman Sırrı Aral (Minister of Public Works); Refik Saydam (Minister of Social Welfare); Hasan Saka (Minister of Trade).
