President Erdoğan gifts Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam Turkish translation of his grandfather's memoirs

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam shared on social media the moment President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented him with the Turkish translation of his grandfather Selim Ali Selam's memoirs, titled 'Memoirs of the Mayor of Beirut (1908-1918)'. Salam said he was deeply moved by the kind gesture.

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President Erdoğan gifts Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam Turkish translation of his grandfather's memoirs

Lebanese Prime Minister Salam shared on his Instagram account a photo of the moment President Erdoğan gifted him the Turkish translation of his grandfather Selim Ali Selam's memoirs.

Stating that he was "deeply moved by this kind gesture," Prime Minister Salam noted that his grandfather Selim Ali Selam was the founder of the Beirut Reform Movement and served as a deputy for Beirut in the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies between 1908 and 1914.

Noting that his grandfather was one of the leading figures of the enlightenment and reform movement, Salam added that he was a member of the Executive Committee of the First Arab Congress held in Paris in 1913 and played a role in formulating Arab nationalist demands that advocated decentralization and modernization within the Ottoman Empire.

Selim Ali Selam was elected to the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies as a deputy for Beirut in 1908 and 1914 during the Second Constitutional Era.

Serving as the Mayor of Beirut between 1918 and 1919, Selim Ali Selam's memoirs, which illuminate the final period of the Ottoman Empire and Arab political history, were translated into Turkish and published under the title "Memoirs of the Mayor of Beirut (1908-1918)".

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at Vahdettin Mansion in Istanbul during his visit to Turkey.

Source: Sabah

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