own right. Vedat Tek: Representative figure of the First National Architecture Movement in Turkish architecture. Son of Leyla Saz and Giritli Sırrı Pasha. Paul Mulla (alias Mollazade Mehmed Ali): born Muslim, converted to Christianity and becoming a Roman Catholic bishop and author. Rahmizâde Bahaeddin Bediz: The first Turkish photographer by profession. The thousands of photographs he took, based as of 1895 successively in Crete, İzmir, İstanbul and Ankara (as Head of the Photography Department of Turkish Historical Society), have immense historical value. Salih Zeki: Turkish photographer in Chania Ali Nayip Zade: Associate of Eleftherios Venizelos, Prefect of Drama and Kavala, Adrianople, and Lasithi. Ismail Fazil Pasha: (1856–1921) descended from the rooted Cebecioğlu family of Söke who had settled in Crete He has been the first Minister of Public Works in the government of Grand National Assembly in 1920. He was the father of Ali Fuad and Mehmed Ali. Mehmet Atıf Ateşdağlı: (1876–1947) Turkish officer. Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker: (1892–1961) Turkish officer who sank HMS Ben-my-Chree. Writer Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, alias Halikarnas Balıkçısı (The Fisherman of Halicarnassus), although born in Crete and has often let himself be cited as Cretan, descends from a family of Ottoman aristocracy with roots in Afyonkarahisar, and his father had been an Ottoman High Commissioner in Crete and later ambassador in Athens. Hüsamettin Cindoruk: Turkish politician, president of the Turkish Republic. Bülent Arınç (born 25 May 1948) is a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey since 2009. He is of Cretan Muslim heritage with his ancestors arriving to Turkey as Cretan refugees during the time of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and is fluent in Cretan Greek. Arınç is a proponent of reconverting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, which has caused diplomatic protestations from Greece. Halil Berktay (born 27 August 1947) Turkish historian of Cretan Muslim origin. Tuba Büyüküstün, Turkish actress Hülya Avşar, Turkish actress (maternal Cretan Muslim-Yörük and paternal Kurdish) Ferdi Özbeğen, Turkish singer Bennu Yıldırımlar, Turkish actress Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish-Islamist poet (on mother side) Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay, was a Turkish teacher and a lieutenant. He is considered a "Martyr of the Revolution" in Turkey. See also Al Hamidiyah Cretan State Emirate of Crete Greek Muslims History of Crete International Squadron (Crete intervention, 1897–1898) Massacre of Phocaea Turks in Lebanon References Notes Bibliography McTiernan, Mick, A Very Bad Place Indeed For a Soldier. The British involvement in the early stages of the European Intervention in Crete.