Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez or Cafer Bey (1877 – January 3, 1958) was an officer of the
Ottoman Army
The Military of the Ottoman Empire () was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. It was founded in 1299 and dissolved in 1922.
Army
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and a general of the
Turkish Army
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. He participated in the
Defense of Gallipoli during
World War I
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and after the war had ended, he joined the forces of
Mustafa Kemal Pasha
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and fought in the
Turkish War of Independence
, strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...
.
See also
*
Sources
External lınks
* Zülal Keleş
"Cafer Tayyar Paşa", ''Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi'', Sayı 44, Cilt: XV, Temmuz 1999.
External links
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1877 births
1958 deaths
Military personnel from Pristina
People from Kosovo vilayet
Progressive Republican Party (Turkey) politicians
Deputies of Edirne
Ottoman Army officers
Turkish Army generals
Ottoman military personnel of the Balkan Wars
Ottoman military personnel of World War I
Turkish military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)
Turkish prisoners of war
Ottoman Military Academy alumni
Ottoman Military College alumni
Recipients of the Medal of Independence with Red-Green Ribbon (Turkey)
Burials at Karacaahmet Cemetery