Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez

Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez
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Cafer Tayyar (Eğilmez)
Born1877 (1877)
Priştine (Pristina), Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern Kosovo)
DiedJanuary 3, 1958(1958-01-03) (aged 80–81)
Istanbul, Turkey
Buried
Karacaahmet Mezarlığı
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Service years
Ottoman: 1901–1920
Turkey: 1920 – January 1928
Rank
Mirliva
Commands1st Division, II Corps, I Corps, II Corps, I Corps
Trakya Kuva-yi Milliye, VII Corps
Conflicts
Balkan Wars
First World War
Turkish War of Independence
Other workMember of the GNAT (Edirne)
Governor of the Samsun Province

Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez or Cafer Bey (1877 – January 3, 1958) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. He participated in the Defense of Gallipoli during World War I and after the war had ended, he joined the forces of Mustafa Kemal Pasha and fought in the Turkish War of Independence.

On 12 August 1923 he was appointed commander of the 7th Corps. He was promoted to Mirliva and made a Pasha on 24 Eylül 1923. He put down the Assyrian rebellion in south-eastern Anatolia.

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 129. (in Turkish)

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