Hüseyin Rauf Orbay (27 July 1881 – 16 July 1964) was a Turkish naval officer, statesman and diplomat of Abkhaz origin.^[1][2][3]

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Hüseyin Rauf Orbay
3rd Prime Minister of the Government of the Grand National Assembly
In office 12 July 1922 – 4 August 1923
Preceded by	Fevzi Çakmak
Succeeded by	Ali Fethi Okyar
Personal details
Born	Hüseyin Rauf (1881-07-27)27 July 1881 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died	16 July 1964(1964-07-16) (aged 82) Istanbul, Turkey
Political party	Progressive Republican Party (1923–1924)
Alma mater	Turkish Naval Academy
Awards	Medal of Independence
Signature
Nickname	Hero of Hamidiye
Military service
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire
Branch/service	Ottoman Navy
Years of service	1895–1918
Rank	Colonel
Commands	Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye
Battles/wars	Balkan Wars World War I

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He served as the prime minister of Turkey between 12 July 1922 and 4 August 1923 during the Turkish War of Independence and was one of the founders of the Progressive Republican Party.

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Hüseyin Rauf was born in Constantinople in 1881 to an Abkhazian family.^[4]

As an officer in the Ottoman Navy, he achieved fame for his actions as the captain of the cruiser Hamidiye during the First Balkan War.^[5] He was Chief of Naval Staff during World War I where he led Ottoman forces during the Gallipoli campaign and by October 1918 was Minister of Marine and led the delegation that signed the Armistice of Mudros which ended the Ottoman Empire's participation in World War I.^[5] Rauf Orbay also played a role in assisting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in a near court-martial during a feud with Djemal Pasha and Enver Pasha.^[6] When the Turkish War of Independence began, he resigned from his position and went to Ankara to collaborate with Mustafa Kemal. He was elected as a member of the representative committee in the Congress of Erzurum on 23 July 1919. He joined the Congress of Sivas as a delegate for Sivas on 4 September 1919 and was elected deputy chairman.

When the War of Independence ended he became the first Prime Minister of the new provisional Government of the Grand National Assembly on 11 August 1922. In 1924, he was one of the founders of the Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası (Progressive Republican Party) at the request of Atatürk as part of Atatürk's attempt to begin the tradition of multiparty democracy in the young Republic, in opposition to Atatürk's Republican People's Party. When this party was closed down in 1925 after Atatürk found that Islamist reactionaries had infiltrated its ranks, Rauf went to exile in Europe for 10 years. Later, he was cleared of all accusations and became a member of the Turkish parliament. During World War II, Rauf Orbay was the Turkish ambassador in London,^[7] helping keep Turkey out of the war. He always firmly believed in the Republic of Turkey and always stated that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the only person who could have organised and led the transformation of the crumbling Ottoman Empire into modern Turkey.

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  Rauf Orbay as the captain of the cruiser Hamidiye
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  Bust of Rauf Orbay in the Istanbul Naval Museum

• Cehennem Değirmeni ("Windmill of Hell"), Emre Publishing, September 1993^[8]