10th government of Turkey 10th government of Turkey The 10th government of Turkey (11 November 1938 – 25 January 1939) was a short-term government in the history of Turkey. It is also called "Second Bayar government". Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the president and the founder of modern Turkey, died on 10 November. İsmet İnönü was elected as the new president, and consequently the 9th government of Turkey (First Bayar government) resigned. İnönü appointed Celal Bayar of the Republican People's Party (CHP) for the second time. The Second Bayar government was similar to the First Bayar government, but Interior Minister Şükrü Kaya and Foreign Minister Tevfik
Name of Turkey Name of Turkey The English name Turkey, now applied to the modern Republic of Turkey, is historically derived (via Old French ') from the Medieval Latin '. It is first recorded in Middle English (as "Turkye, Torke", later "Turkie, Turky"), attested in Chaucer, ca. 1369. The Ottoman Empire was commonly referred to as "Turkey" or the "Turkish Empire" among its contemporaries. The English name of Turkey (from Medieval Latin "Turchia"/"Turquia") means "land of the Turks". Middle English usage of "Turkye" is attested to in an early work by Chaucer called "The Book of the Duchess" (c. 1369). The phrase "land