İsmet İnönü

**Mustafa İsmet İnönü** (24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish politician and military officer, who was the first Prime Minister and second President of Turkey. In 1938, Republican People's Party gave him "National Chief" title.

İsmet İnönü was by the standards of his time a highly educated man, speaking Arabic, English, French and German in addition to his native Turkish. His resting place is in Anıtkabir with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He was close friend of Atatürk. He had two sons, Erdal and Ömer.

## Infobox (president)

- **name**: İsmet İnönü
- **honorific-prefix**: _Millî Şef_
- **image**: Ismet Inonu portrait.jpg
- **nationality**: Turkish people, Turkish
- **birth place**: İzmir, Aidin Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
- **birth name**: Mustafa İsmet
- **death place**: Ankara, Turkey
- **death cause**: Heart attack
- **restingplace**: Anıtkabir, Ankara
- **party**: Republican People's Party (Turkey), Republican People's Party
- **spouse**: Mevhibe İnönü
- **children**: 4, including Erdal İnönü
- **office1**: 2nd President of Turkey
- **term start1**: 11 November 1938
- **term end1**: 27 May 1950
- **primeminister1**: Celal Bayar
Refik Saydam
Ahmet Fikri Tüzer
Şükrü Saracoğlu
Recep Peker
Hasan Saka
Şemsettin Günaltay
- **predecessor1**: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- **successor1**: Celal Bayar
- **office2**: 1st Prime Minister of Turkey
- **president4**: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- **term start4**: 30 October 1923
- **term end4**: 22 November 1924
- **predecessor4**: Ali Fethi Okyar <small>(as Prime Minister of the Government of the Grand National Assembly)</small>
- **successor4**: Ali Fethi Okyar
- **term start3**: 4 March 1925
- **term end3**: 25 October 1937
- **president3**: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- **predecessor3**: Ali Fethi Okyar
- **successor3**: Celal Bayar
- **president2**: Cemal Gürsel
- **term start2**: 20 November 1961
- **term end2**: 20 February 1965
- **predecessor2**: Emin Fahrettin Özdilek
- **successor2**: Suat Hayri Ürgüplü
- **office5**: Republican People's Party (Turkey)#Historical leaders, 2nd Republican People's Party (Turkey), Leader of the Republican People's Party
- **term start5**: 10 November 1938
- **term end5**: 8 May 1972
- **predecessor5**: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- **successor5**: Bülent Ecevit
- **office6**: List of Chiefs Turkish General Staff, Chief of the General Staff of Turkey
- **term start6**: 20 May 1920
- **term end6**: 3 August 1921
- **predecessor6**: _Office established_
- **successor6**: Fevzi Çakmak
- **office7**: List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
- **term start7**: 26 October 1922
- **term end7**: 21 November 1924
- **primeminister7**: Rauf Orbay
Ali Fethi Okyar
- **predecessor7**: Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk
- **successor7**: Şükrü Kaya
- **term start8**: 15 October 1961
- **term end8**: 20 November 1972
- **constituency8**: Malatya (electoral district), Malatya
(Turkish general election, 1961, 1961, Turkish general election, 1965, 1965, Turkish general election, 1969, 1969)
- **term start9**: 14 May 1950
- **term end9**: 27 May 1960
- **constituency9**: Malatya (electoral district), Malatya  (Turkish general election, 1950, 1950, Turkish general election, 1954, 1954, Turkish general election, 1957, 1957)
- **term start10**: 28 June 1923
- **term end10**: 10 November 1938
- **constituency10**: Edirne (electoral district), Edirne  (Turkish general election, 1923, 1923, Turkish general election, 1927, 1927, Turkish general election, 1931, 1931, Turkish general election, 1935, 1935)
- **signature**: İsmet İnönü Signature.svg
- **allegiance**: (1903–1920)
 (1920–1926)
- **rank**: Orgeneral
- **battles**: World War I
Turkish War of Independence