İbrahim Süreyya Yiğit

İbrahim Süreyya Yiğit
Member of the Grand National Assembly
Personal details
Born1880 (1880)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died4 November 1952(1952-11-04) (aged 71–72)
NationalityTurkish

İbrahim Süreyya Yiğit (1880 – 4 November 1952) was a Turkish thinker, politician and a close friend of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He was the only civilian signatory to the Amasya Declaration and participated in the Erzurum and Sivas Congresses. He served as a Member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly from 1923 until 1950. His surname of Yigit was personally given by Atatürk.

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