Background
Ahmet Emin Yalman, Doctor of Philosophy, was born in 1888 in Thessaloniki, which at that time was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Ahmet Emin Yalman, Doctor of Philosophy, was born in 1888 in Thessaloniki, which at that time was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Columbia University.
Educated at Columbia University, he returned to Turkey in 1914 and became first associate professor of sociology, and then professor of statistics, at Istanbul University, and also worked as a journalist. In 1919 he was exiled to Kutahia, by the order of the Sultan Mehmet VI and in 1920 to Malta by the British Occupation forces. On his release, the national government in Ankara offered him the post of Director-General of Press and Information and the job of Ambassador to Washington, District of Columbia, but he asked to be excused because he wanted to focus on his journalistic work.