Mehmed Fuad Carim

Mehmed Fuad Carim (1892; Ottoman Aleppo - 1972; Istanbul, Turkey) was a Syrian-Turkish politician and diplomat. On 1 June, 1934, he was appointed as the Turkish Consul-General at Marseilles and remained there until 30 May 1945.[1] He is noted for being one of several Turkish diplomats who saved Turkish Jews living in France during the Second World War, by pulling them out of Nazi concentration camps and ensuring that they could return to Turkey.[2]

Mehmed Fuad Carim

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References
  1. Shaw, Stanford J. (1993), Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey’s Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933–1945, Springer, p. 418, ISBN 1349130419
  2. Reisman, Arnold (2010), An Ambassador and a Mensch: The Story of a Turkish Diplomat in Vichy France, Createspace, p. 152, ISBN 1450558127
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