| Fethi Okyar | |
| Party: | Republican People's Party (1930–1943) Liberal Republican Party (1930) Republican People's Party (1923–1930) Ottoman Liberal People's Party (1918–1919) Union and Progress Party (1913–1918) |
| Office1: | 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey |
| Term Start1: | 22 November 1924 |
| Term End1: | 3 March 1925 |
| President1: | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Predecessor1: | İsmet İnönü |
| Successor1: | İsmet İnönü |
| Office2: | 4th Prime Minister of the Government of the Grand National Assembly |
| Predecessor2: | Rauf Orbay |
| Successor2: | İsmet İnönü (As Prime Minister of Turkey) |
| Term Start2: | 14 August 1923 |
| Term End2: | 27 October 1923 |
| Office3: | 3rd Speaker of the Grand National Assembly |
| Term Start3: | 1 November 1923 |
| Term End3: | 22 November 1924 |
| President3: | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Primeminister3: | İsmet İnönü |
| Predecessor3: | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| Successor3: | Kâzım Özalp |
| Term Start4: | 8 February 1935 |
| Term End4: | 7 May 1943 |
| Constituency4: | Bolu (1935, 1939, 1943) |
| Term Start5: | 28 June 1923 |
| Term End5: | 25 April 1931 |
| Constituency5: | Istanbul (1923) Gümüşhane (1927) |
| Office6: | Minister of Justice |
| Term Start6: | 26 May 1939 |
| Term End6: | 12 March 1941 |
| President6: | İsmet İnönü |
| Primeminister6: | Refik Saydam |
| Predecessor6: | Tevfik Fikret Sılay |
| Successor6: | Hasan Menemencioğlu |
| Office7: | Minister of National Defense |
| Term Start7: | 22 November 1924 |
| Term End7: | 3 March 1925 |
| Primeminister7: | Himself |
| Predecessor7: | Kâzım Fikri |
| Successor7: | Mehmet Recep |
| Office8: | Minister of the Interior of the Government of the Grand National Assembly |
| Term Start8: | 5 November 1922 |
| Term End8: | 27 October 1923 |
| Predecessor8: | İsmail Safa Özler |
| Successor8: | Ahmet Ferit Tek |
| Term Start9: | 10 October 1921 |
| Term End9: | 9 July 1922 |
| Predecessor9: | Refet Bele |
| Successor9: | İsmail Safa |
| Office10: | Minister of the Interior (Ottoman Empire) |
| Term Start10: | 14 October 1918 |
| Term End10: | 8 November 1918 |
| Firstminister10: | Ahmet İzzet |
| Predecessor10: | Mehmet Talaat (acting) |
| Successor10: | Mustafa Arif |
| Birth Name: | Ali Fethi |
| Birth Date: | 1880 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Prilep, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern North Macedonia) |
| Death Place: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Allegiance: | Ottoman Empire |
| Branch: | Ottoman Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1898–1923 |
| Rank: | Lieutenant General |
| Battles: | Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars |
Ali Fethi Okyar (29 April 1880 – 7 May 1943) was a Turkish diplomat and politician, who also served as a military officer and diplomat during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. He was also the second Prime Minister of Turkey (1924–1925) and the second Speaker of the Turkish Parliament after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
He was born in the Ottoman town of Prilep in Manastir Vilayet (present-day North Macedonia) to an Albanian family.[1] [2] [3] Some sources also claim that he was of Circassian descent.[4] He attended the Monastir Military High School, where he was a friend of Mustafa Kemal, helping him with French and introducing him to French political thought.[5] In 1913, he joined the Committee of Union and Progress (İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) and was elected as the secretary general. In 1924 he was appointed Prime Minister as the successor of İsmet İnönü. But only a few months later in March 1925 he was replaced again by İnönü as a more decisive policy was needed to suppress the Sheikh Said rebellion.[6] Following he was appointed the Turkish ambassador to France in Paris. In 1930, he received the permission to establish the Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Liberal Republican Party), an early party of opposition.[7] However, when the government noticed the support of this opposition party among Islamists, it was declared illegal and closed down, a situation similar to that of the Progressive Republican Party, which had lasted for a few months in 1924. He later served as Justice Minister from 1939 to 1941.