Prime-minister Zekai Apaydın (born in 1884) is one of the many members of the Turkish government with a military background. Known for his hard militarist stance, he had some serious clashes with more liberal members of the government in the past, including the ex-Prime-minister himself, who he served under as an Armament Minister. It is believed only Apaydın's close friendship with charismatic Chief of the Staff Fevzi Çakmak, as well as with Sultan Selim II himself, had helped him to keep his position within the government until the recent elections put him in the prime-minister's chair. Even after this success, Apaydın decided to keep the position of Armament Minister in addition to his primary job, which gave some political analysts a reason to predict that "he was going to run the country the way a general runs a military camp." Conservative agenda, however, argues with this statement by saying that so far Apaydın's approach to armament industry could have been better described by words "Guns and Butter," which only means better living standards for an average Turkish citizen once the same approach is taken to the country as a whole.
Zekai Apaydın
Foreign Minister Tevfik Rüştü Aras (born in 1883) used to serve as a doctor in Izmir and became a politician through his membership in various Turkish nationalist organizations prior and during the War of Independence against Kurdistan. In his youth he was known to be a member of the Proletarist Party of Turkey, but has changed his political allegations since then, and now is considered as one the most loyal Sultan’s servants.
Tevfik Rüştü Aras
Minister of Security Şükrü Kaya (born in 1883) graduated from law school in Konya before doing his graduate work in Paris, Franco-Burgundian Confederation. He had worked as a minister of education for three years, and had to pass his seat to Esat Sagay, which keeps causing some small conflicts between the two.
Şükrü Kaya
Head of Intelligence Şükrü Âli Ögel (born in 1886) served as a military staff member during all wars that Turkey has experienced in the 20th century so far. He is a mastermind behind the creation of Milli Emniyet Hizmeti (National Security Service), and is a close friend of the current Chief of the Army.
Şükrü Âli Ögel
Vice-Minister of Education Esat Sagay was born in 1874 in a mixed Greeko-Turkish middle-class family. In his early years he suffered from political oppression as a member of opposition to absolutist rule of the Sultan, but since the proclamation of constitutional monarchy he has managed to make his way into the government. A high-minded intellectual, he doesn't belong to the generation of independence fighters that dominates Turkish politics today, which still can’t deny the fact that he is an efficient manager and a visionary. Up until the recent elections he held office of Minister of Education, but after Zekai Apaydın's triumph Sagay had to pass the chair to a silent bureaucrat Yusuf Hikmet Bayur, who in turn didn't have the political will to protect his predecessor's vision in front of the disagreeable Prime-minister. Still, even underfunded, the reform of education continues under Bayur with Sagay's guidance.
Vice-Minister of Education Esat Sagay
Yusuf Hikmet Bayur, new Minister of National Education
Chief of the Staff Fevzi Çakmak (born on 24 January 1876) is known in the army as kalıcı mareşal (or “permanent marshal”

. He started his military career in 1879 in a Hasimite coastal artillery regiment, and has risen to the rank of a divisional staff officer by 1899. Fluent in Arabic and Persian, he has participated in every conflict the Turkish Sultanate has been involved in, and now enjoys reputation of the best military mind of modern Turkey. Surprisingly, unlike many members of the old guard, he seems to be aware of the changes that conventional warfare is struggling with now. Finally, with the appointment of his army comrade Zekai Apaydın as a prime-minister, Fevzi Çakmak may finally push through so needed military reforms he has been advocating for recently.
Fevzi Çakmak
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