Mehmet Nuri Conker (September 20, 1882 – January 11, 1937) was a Turkish politician and an officer of the

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Nuri Bey and Gazi Mustafa Kemal in Istanbul in 1931

Mehmet Nuri Conker was the oldest childhood and lifelong friend of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk). Mehmet Nuri Conker was a graduate of the War Academy of the Ottoman Empire (Harp Akademisi). He retired as a Colonel (Kurmay Albay). Mehmet Nuri Conker married Nedime Hanim (1890?-1969) and they had four children: Orhan Conker (1910-1975); Mahmut Cahit Conker (1912-1964); Ali Necip Conker (1914-1973); Kiymet Tesal Conker (1916-1988). His sister Dürriye Hanım married Salih Bozok. According to Philip Hendrick Stoddard, he was a brother-in-law of Süleyman Askerî Bey.''The Ottoman Government and the Arabs, 1911 to 1918: A Preliminary Study of the Teskilât-ı Mahsusa'', Princeton University, 1963, p. 175. Mehmet Nuri Conker fought on numerous fronts:

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, the

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, the Eastern front, in

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and 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 ...

. He was wounded twice: once in

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and again in the Dardanelles, at Conk Bayir (the Chunuk Hill). Mustafa Kemal Ataturk gave Mehmet Nuri Conker his last name in memory of Conk Bayiri. Mehmet Nuri Conker was assigned as the Governor of

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in 1921 after the withdrawal of the French forces in the aftermath of the

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. He was elected to Grand National Assembly as the Representative from

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(1923-1927). He was also elected to the Grand National Assembly as the Representative from Gaziantep (1932 and 1935). Mehmet Nuri Conker served as the Deputy Chairman of the Grand National Assembly during its 5th session and as Acting Chairman in 1935. He took part in the development of the

along with

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. Mehmet Nuri Conker received the Medal of Independence. Mehmet Nuri Conker knew French, German and Arabic.

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*Conker, Mehmed Nuri, ''Zâbit ve Kumandan'', İş Bankası Yayınları, Ankara, 1959. (He wrote this book in 1930, Mustafa Kemal's ''Zâbit ve Kumandan ile Hasbihal'' was the answer to Nuri's work.)

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