Ottoman’s First Ambassador to Argentina Emir Amin Arslan, His Biography and Works

This article aims to study the life of Emir Amin Arslan who became the first ambassador of Ottoman to Argentina and gave many works in the different fields. Emir Arslan, a Lebanese-born politician, writer and intellectual, who witnessed the last period of the Ottoman Empire. Although he was not a Muslim, he was appointed to France, Brussels and Argentina as an ambassador by the Ottoman administration. Emin Arslan severely criticized Abdul Hamid II for his lack of reforms and for restricting the press. Thus he joined the Young Turks. When Abdul Hamid II was removed from the throne and the Young Turks come to power, he was sent to Argentina as an ambassador. Emin Arslan was dismissed from the embassy because he heavily criticized the Young Turks for putting the Ottomans in the first world war and he was declared a fugitive by the administration. Emin Arslan spent the rest of his life in Argentina and, worked hard to ensure unity between both immigrant Arabs and Muslims in Argentina. Emin Arslan contributed significantly to the change of Muslim and Arab perception of the Argentine through the books and articles he published, as well as the magazines and newspapers he edited