Mehmet Esat Işık

Turkish physician and politician (1865–1936)

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Mehmet Esat Işık

Personal details
Born	3 April 1865 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	1 November 1936(1936-11-01) (aged 71) Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Ottoman, Turkish
Children	Hasan Esat Işık

Mehmet Esat Işık (3 April 1865–1 November 1936) was a Turkish physician and politician, known for his contribution in the development of ophthalmology in his home country.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Mehmet Esat was born in Istanbul on 3 April 1865.^[3] His mother was the daughter of Ağa Yusuf Pasha who served as the grand vizier.^[4] He was educated at the military medical academy and received his specialty training in medicine in France graduating from the University of Paris.^[4] After attending medical schools in Germany and Austria he returned to the Ottoman Empire in 1894 and established the first ophthalmic clinic in the country.^[4]

Mehmet Esat supported the national independence movement led by Mustafa Kemal.^[4] He was exiled by the British to Malta on 16 March 1920 and was freed in October 1921.^[4] Then he settled in Ankara where he established an ophthalmic clinic.^[4] He worked at the Istanbul University's Faculty of Medicine between 1931 and 1933.^[4] He died of heart failure in Istanbul on 1 November 1936.^[3]

His son was Hasan Esat Işık who served as the foreign minister of Turkey.^[4]

References

^ Şeref Etker (2008). "Ophtalmoscope Essad". Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları (in Turkish). 9 (1–2): 151–164.
^ Nuran Yıldırım (2018). "A view of the history of the İstanbul Faculty of Medicine" (PDF). CDN.
^ ^a ^b "Esat Işık kimdir?". Yeni Akit (in Turkish). Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Mehmet Esat Işık kimdir? Mehmet Esat Işık hayatı" (in Turkish). Gıda Hattı. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2022.