Nuri Conker
| Nuri Conker[1] | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
1882 Salonica, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died |
11 January 1937 (aged 54–55) Ankara, Turkey |
| Buried at |
Ankara Şehitliği State Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 Ottoman Empire (1902–20) Turkey (1920–27) |
| Years of service |
Ottoman Empire: 1902–20 Turkey: June, 1920–27 |
| Rank | Miralay |
| Commands held |
Chief of Staff of the 1st Division, 24th Regiment, Military attaché to The Hague General Director of the Press and Intelligence, Ankara Command, 41st Division (Governor of Adana Vilayet) |
| Battles/wars |
Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars First World War War of Independence |
| Other work |
Member of the GNAT (Kütahya) Member of the GNAT (Gaziantep) Member of the administrative board of the Türkiye İş Bankası |
Mehmet Nuri Conker (1882 – January 11, 1937) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army and a Turkish politician.
Nuri Conker was the oldest friend of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk).[2] His sister Dürriye Hanım married Salih Bozok. According to Philip Hendrick Stoddard, he was a brother-in-law of Süleyman Askerî Bey.[3]
Works
- 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.)
See also
Sources
- ↑ T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademlerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 174. (Turkish)
- ↑ Erik Jan Zürcher, The Unionist Factor: The Role of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926, BRILL, 1984, ISBN 978-90-04-07262-6, p. 48.
- ↑ The Ottoman Government and the Arabs, 1911 to 1918: A Preliminary Study of the Teskilât-ı Mahsusa, Princeton University, 1963, p. 175.
External links
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