Ali Fuat Başgil (1893-1967), a Turkish intellectual, jurist, and politician, was born in Çarşamba, Samsun. He was related to the notable family of Bölükbaşıoğulları. After completing his primary schooling in Çarşamba, he began his secondary education in Istanbul, but his studies were interrupted by military service in 1914. Başgil later resumed his secondary schooling in Paris, studied law at the University of Grenoble, and obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Paris, with a thesis about the "Straits Question." After further studies at the Institute of Political Science (