Hasan Âli Yücel

Hasan Ali Yücel
Hasan Ali Yücel
President of Ministers of National Education
	In office; 28 December 1938 – 5 August 1946
Preceded by	Saffet Arıkan
Succeeded by	Reşat Şemsettin Sirer
Personal details
Born	17 December 1897; Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died	26 February 1961 (aged 63); Istanbul, Turkey

Hasan Âli Yücel (17 December 1897 in Istanbul – 26 February 1961) was a Turkish writer, teacher and politician who served as Minister of National Education of Turkey from December 1938 to August 1946. He is remembered for his reforms of the education system, and the foundation of Village Institutes. He was the father of Turkish poet Can Yücel.

In 1997, UNESCO was associated with the celebration of the centenary of his birth.^[1]

References

^ Celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO was associated since 1996 (Last. Retrieved 21 April 2008).

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[1] Celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO was associated since 1996 (Last. Retrieved 21 April 2008).

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