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Tevfik Rüştü Aras (1883, Çanakkale – 5 January 1972, Istanbul) was a Turkish politician, serving as deputy and foreign

minister of Turkey during the Atatürk era (1923–1938). He played a prominent role in

the Armenian Genocide. He

graduated from the medical school of Beirut. He served as a doctor in Izmir,

Istanbul, became a member of the Committee of Union and

Progress, and during his membership he met Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,

the founder of the Republic of Turkey. In 1918, he was a member of the high

commission of health (Turkish: Yüksek Sağlık Kurulu). At that time he

married the journalist Evliyazade Makbule, who was the daughter of a wealthy

family from Izmır. The Turkish Grand National

Assembly (TGNA) opened in 1920. Aras was elected to the

parliament from Muğla. In his first period as a Member of Parliament (MP),

he was appointed to the Independence Court of Kastamonu. In the autumn of 1920, he became one of the

founders of the Communist

Party of Turkey. Tevfik Rustu visited the Russian

Soviet Federative Socialist Republic with Ali Fuat Cebesoy, when Mr. Cebesoy was appointed as ambassador

to Moscow. He served as MP for Izmir in the second, third, fourth

and fifth periods of TGNA, between 1923 and 1939. When the Law on the

Maintenance of Order was effected on March 4, 1925, he was the Minister of Foreign

Affairs in the third İsmet İnönü government.

He stayed in office by keeping his position in all the cabinets until Atatürk

died. He implemented Atatürk's foreign policy, held good relations with

neighbouring countries and opposition to hegemonic powers. He visited Russia three times at the

invitation of Maxim Litvinov, the People's

Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. These visits took

place in 1926 (Odessa), and in 1936 and 1937 (Moscow). Aras was elected as

the president of League of Nations during

the Special Session of the Assembly Convened for the Purpose of Considering the

Request of the Kingdom of Egypt for Admission to the League of

Nations in Geneva, on May 26–May 27, 1937. He was appointed as

ambassador to the United Kingdom in

1939 and stayed in London for three and a half years. He

retired in 1943 and published some stories in the Istanbul press (especially in

the newspaper Tan). He supported the establishment of the Democratic

Party. He took office as chairman of the board of Turkiye Is Bankasi, a

Turkish Bank. The speeches he gave during his ministerial period were collected

in a book called "10 Years in Pursuit of Lausanne" (Turkish: Lozan'ın izlerinde

10 yıl) by Mr. Numan Menemencioglu in 1937. He also

collected his stories (published in the daily press between 1945–63) into a

book called My on January 5, 1972 in İstanbul, and was laid to rest at the Aşiyan Asri Cemetery. Tevfik

Rüştü Aras was the brother-in-law of Nazim Bey, one of the chief organizers of the Armenian genocide. Tevfik Rüştü Aras became Inspector-General

of Health Services and was given the task to destroy the bodies of Armenian

victims of the genocide. He

organized the disposal of Armenian corpses with thousands of kilos of lime over

six months. The bodies were dumped into wells which were then filled with lime

and sealed with soil. Tevfik Rüştü Aras was given six months to complete the

task, after which he returned to Constantinople. H.W. Glockner, a British POW,

wrote in his memoirs that he had seen the bodies of murdered Armenians in Urfa thrown

into large ditches and covered with lime, just as Tevfik Rüştü Aras has been

instructed to do.

In

1926, following the passage of the 'Settlement Law' designed to break up

Kurdish majority areas in the eastern provinces, Aras justified the

deportations to the British administrator of Iraq, Sir Henry Dobbs. Dobbs

recorded how Aras said that the government was 'determined to clear the Kurds

out of their valleys, the richest part of Turkey to-day, and to settle Turkish

peasants there,' adding that the Kurds 'were to be treated as were the

Armenians.' Aras apparently justified this argument: 'The Kurds would for many

generations be incapable of self-government ... He always said long before the

war that Turkey must get rid of the Albanians, Bulgarians and Arab, and must become

more homogeneous.' 

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