Rahmi Arslan

Mustafa Rahmi Arslan (1874 –1947) was a Turkish politician, who was a prominent member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). Being a leading Unionist, he was known for his anti-Greek policies. 
Education and early life.
Rahmi Arslan was born into a wealthy family in Selanik and attended primary school in his hometown. He studied law in Constantinople, but shortly before the completion of his studies, he was arrested and prosecuted for his membership in the CUP, following which he left the Ottoman Empire and went into exile in Europe. 
Political career.
It was in exile in Geneva, where got to know CUP co-founder Abdullah Cevdet, with whom he tried to establish a Geneva branch of the CUP in the 1890s. By 1906, together with Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha, he was one of the co-founders of the Ottoman Freedom Society in Selanik, society which supported the Young Turk Revolution. During World War I, he acted as the Governor of Izmir, and attempted to Turkify the region. He was arrested by the Allied forces in January 1919, and later one of the Malta exiles prosecuted for crimes committed during World War I. Following his return to Turkey, he was accused of having been involved in an assassination attempt against Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) in 1926. He then left Turkey an only returned in 1933. He died in 1947.