{"record":{"aliases":["Şekip Bey","Mustafa Şekib Bey","Chekib Bey","Shekib Bey"],"appointmentIds":["turkey-0770b86ba89c64"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/sekip-bey-425cb08805/","countrySlug":"turkey","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/sekip-bey-425cb08805/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Mustafa Şekip Bey belonged to the Ottoman diplomatic establishment and married the youngest daughter of Egypt’s Khedive Ismail. He became minister in Washington in 1901 and reached the senior bureaucratic grade of ûlâ first class in 1904. American records usually render his name as Chekib.","His Washington assignment was unusual because he conducted diplomatic business without completing the normal presentation of credentials. Historian Sinan Kuneralp attributes the withheld credentials to Abdülhamid II’s displeasure over American representations concerning Armenians. The distinction remained visible in official correspondence: the State Department’s published record of his July 1905 condolence message after John Hay’s death calls him the appointed Turkish minister.","He also served as commissioner-general for Ottoman participation in the 1904 St. Louis exposition. Financial constraints prevented an official Ottoman pavilion, so his commission instead advised private exhibitors who were Ottoman subjects. Its other members were consular officials Hermann Schoenfeld and George Eli Hall.","In June 1906 he asked Washington to reject powers of attorney issued by ecclesiastical authorities in the Ottoman Empire, arguing that only sharia courts and notaries could authenticate them. Acting Secretary Robert Bacon replied that the request had been passed to the American embassy in Constantinople. After Washington, Şekip served as Ottoman commissioner in Sofia. The reorganization following recognition of Bulgarian independence moved him to Stockholm in 1909, where he served through 1915."],"id":"turkey:sekip-bey","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-425cb08805d28be86c6e.html","name":"Mustafa Şekip Bey","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["sekip-harris","sekip-hay"],["sekip-kuneralp","sekip-hay"],["sekip-exposition"],["sekip-attorney","sekip-bacon","sekip-sofia","sekip-stockholm"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-425cb08805d28be86c6e.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"0876f99bddd6a23a","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"sekip-harris","locator":"2010, p. 18","publisher":"Gorgias Press","title":"George S. Harris, Atatürk’s Diplomats and their Brief Biographies","type":"scholarly_book","url":"https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781463231651_A38591819/preview-9781463231651_A38591819.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"sekip-kuneralp","locator":"2011, p. 102","publisher":"Cambridge Scholars Publishing; American Turkish Encounters","title":"Sinan Kuneralp, Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States of America, 1867–1917","type":"scholarly_chapter","url":"https://dokumen.pub/american-turkish-encounters-politics-and-culture-1830-1989-1nbsped-9781443832601-9781443832052.html"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"sekip-hay","locator":"FRUS 1905, document 64","publisher":"U.S. Department of State","title":"Chekib Bey to Mr. Loomis, 1 July 1905","type":"primary_diplomatic_record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1905/d64"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"sekip-exposition","locator":"1906, Appendix on foreign participation, Turkey","publisher":"U.S. Government Printing Office; Project Gutenberg transcription","title":"Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission","type":"primary_government_report","url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13266/pg13266.html"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"sekip-attorney","locator":"FRUS 1906, Part II, document 496","publisher":"U.S. Department of State","title":"The Turkish Minister to the Secretary of State, 4 June 1906","type":"primary_diplomatic_record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1906p2/d496"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"sekip-bacon","locator":"FRUS 1906, Part II, document 499","publisher":"U.S. Department of State","title":"The Acting Secretary of State to the Turkish Minister, 24 July 1906","type":"primary_diplomatic_record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1906p2/d499"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"sekip-sofia","locator":"2021, section 5 and note 92","publisher":"Turkish Historical Society, Belleten","title":"Abidin Temizer, The Independence Process of Bulgaria and the First Ambassador of the Ottoman Empire to Sofia, Mustafa Asım Bey","type":"scholarly_article","url":"https://www.belleten.gov.tr/eng/full-text/3675/eng"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"sekip-stockholm","locator":"Entry 10: Mustafa Şekip Bey, 1909–1915","publisher":"Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs","title":"Mission Chief History: Embassy of Türkiye in Stockholm","type":"official_roster","url":"https://stokholm-be.mfa.gov.tr/Mission/MissionChiefHistory"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 23 October 2026","id":"mission-8640388fff0b15c07ec2","locator":"Full displayed historical chronology 1867–2024; current chancery commissioned 1997, completed/used 1999, inaugurated April 23, 1999.","publisher":"","title":"Mission history and former chiefs of mission","type":"Mission record","url":"https://washington-emb.mfa.gov.tr/Mission/MissionChiefHistory"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"1906-06-04","id":"mission-e3ec9f7c507b455faf3c","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"FRUS 1906, part II, list of papers — Chekib’s June 4 note and June 9 response, pages 1406–1407","type":"Mission record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1906p2/papers"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 26 October 2026","id":"mission-340426425ad7225dc035","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Historical representation: Ottoman Empire","type":"Mission record","url":"https://history.state.gov/countries/turkey"}],"topics":["Ottoman diplomacy","St. Louis exposition","legal representation","Bulgaria","Sweden"]},"schemaVersion":1}