Ali Cenani

Ali Cenani (1872 Constantinople–5 December 1934[1]) was a Turkish politician of the Republican Peoples Party (CHP) and member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

He was born into the Ottoman bureaucratic family of the Cenanizade, of which Grand Vizier Kadri Pasha was also part of.

[1] He settled in Antep (today Gaziantep) in 1891 and was elected into the Ottoman Parliament in 1908, representing Aleppo.

[2] The same year he was elected the head of the Antep branch of the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP), the teacher Taşçızâde Abdullah Effendi became the vice-president.

[9] Upon his return from Malta, he joined the Kemalist faction and became a member of the Grand National Assembly for Antep.