Mustafa Necati

Mustafa Necati
Mustafa Necati in the 1920s
Ministry of Settlement and Population Exchange
In office 30 October 1923 – 6 march 1924
Prime Minister	İsmet İnönü
Succeeded by	Celal Bayar
Ministry of Justice
In office 6 March 1924 – 22 November 1924
Prime Minister	İsmet İnönü
Preceded by	Seyit Bey
Succeeded by	Mahmut Esat Bozkurt
Ministry of National Education
In office 21 December 1925 – 1 January 1929
Prime Minister	İsmet İnönü
Preceded by	Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver
Personal details
Born	1894 İzmir, Ottoman Empire
Died	1 January 1929 Ankara, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Political party	Republican People's Party
Education	Law
Alma mater	Law School, İstanbul University
Occupation	Politician, civil servant

Mustafa Necati (1894 - January 1, 1929) was a Turkish statesman in the early years of the Turkish Republic. He is also known as Mustafa Necati Uğural. He died before the Turkish Surname Law was adopted and the surname Uğural is actually the surname his family members adopted after his death.

Mustafa Necati was born in 1894 in İzmir. His father was Halit and his mother was Naciye. After his primary and secondary education in İzmir, he went to İstanbul for higher education and studied law. He returned to İzmir in 1914 to serve as a lawyer and teacher. In 1915 he eatablished a private school with his friend Vasıf Çınar. He also served as a legal adviser for the local railway company. After the First World War in which the Ottoman Empire was defeated, the Allies fired the railway workers. He tried to defend the workers' rights by establishing a committee. Later he expanded his activities to defend the rights of the reserve officiers who returned from the front. After İzmir was occupied by the Greek army, he fled to İstanbul and then to Balıkesir, where he began to participate in the Turkish War of Independence. Among other things he published a short lived newspaper to defend Turkish rights against Greek invasion.

After the Ottoman parliament in İstanbul was abolished by the Allies on 16 March 1920, Turkish parliament was established in Ankara on 23 April 1920 and Mustafa Necati was elected as the Saruhan (present Manisa) MP. However, during the 1920-1922 term he spent most of his time out of Ankara. He was appointed as the member of Independence Tribunals in Sivas and then Kastamonu. Finally he was appointed as the chairman of Amasya Independence Tribunal.