Mehmet Arif Bey
Appearance
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Nickname(s) | "Ayıcı" Arif |
Born | 1882 Adana, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 13 July 1926 (aged 43–44) İzmir, Turkey |
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Years of service | Ottoman Empire: 1902–1919 Turkey: 19 May 1919 – January 1922 |
Rank | Miralay |
Commands | Chief of Staff of the 5th Division, Infantry School Chief of Staff of the Inspectorate of Rear Area of the Eastern Armies 11th Division, 3rd Group, Secretary of the Commander-in-Chief, III Corps |
Battles/wars | Balkan Wars World War I Turkish War of Independence |
Awards | Gallipoli Star Silver Medal of Liyaqat Prussia Iron Cross Medal of Independence |
Other work | Member of the GNAT (Eskişehir) |
Mehmet Arif Bey (1882 – 13 July 1926), also known as "Ayıcı" Arif ("Bear-Leader Arif"), was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army.
Works
[edit]- Anadolu İnkılabı ve Mücahedat-ı Milliye Hatırası (1335 - 1339) (reprinted as Anadolu İnkılabı ve Millî Mücadele Anıları (1919-1923), Arba Yayınları, 1987.)
Medals and decorations
[edit]- Gallipoli Star (Ottoman Empire)
- Silver Medal of Liyaqat
- Prussia Iron Cross
- Medal of Independence with Red Ribbon and Citation
See also
[edit]Sources
[edit]- ^ T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 151. (in Turkish)
External links
[edit] Media related to Mehmed Arif Bey at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1882 births
- 1926 deaths
- People from Adana
- Ottoman Military Academy alumni
- Ottoman Military College alumni
- Ottoman Army officers
- 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 Army officers
- Deputies of Eskişehir
- People executed for treason against Turkey
- 20th-century executions for treason
- Executed military personnel
- Executed Turkish people
- Recipients of the Liakat Medal
- Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914)
- Recipients of the Medal of Independence with Red Ribbon (Turkey)
- People executed by Turkey by hanging