Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (born 1878)

Sadri Maksudi Arsal

Turkish politician

Sadri Maksudi Arsal was one of the leading figures in the national awakening of Tatars in Russia during the early 1900s. He worked as a writer, lawyer, politician, professor, lecturer, researcher of Turkic languages and a delegate of the League of Nations. He was the president…