Mehmet Cavit Bey, Mehmed Cavid Bey or Mehmed Djavid Bey (1875 – 26 August 1926) was an Ottoman economist, newspaper editor and leading politician of Jewish origin during the dissolution period of the Ottoman Empire. A founding member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), he was part of the Young Turks and had positions in government after the constitution was re-established. In the beginning of the Republican period, he was executed for alleged involvement in an assassination attempt against Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
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1875 Salonica, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
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1926 (aged 50) Ankara, Turkey
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