Burials at Turkish State Cemetery - Cemal Gursel, Bulent Ecevit, Kaz M Karabekir, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Fevzi Cakmak, Kaz M Orbay, Cevdet Sunay (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cemal Gursel, Bulent Ecevit, Kaz m Karabekir, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Fevzi Cakmak, Kaz m Orbay, Cevdet Sunay, Fahri Koruturk, Kaz m Ozalp, Salih Omurtak. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Cemal Gursel (13 October 1895 14 September 1966), was a Turkish army officer, and the fourth President of Turkey. He was born in Erzurum City to the Turkish parents as the son of a Turkish Ottoman army officer, Abidin, the grandson of Ibrahim (1820-1895) and the great-grandson of Haci Ahmad (1790 - 1860). After the elementary school in Ordu and the military middle school in Erzincan, he graduated from the Kuleli military high school in Istanbul. He was a popular figure and was therefore nicknamed "Cemal Aa" (big brother Cemal) since his childhood school years and onwards all his life. Gursel served in the Army for 45 years. During World War I, he participated in the Battle of Canakkale in Dardanelles, Gallipoli as a lieutenant with the First Battery of the 12th Artillery Regiment in 1915 and received the War Medal. He later fought at the Palestine and Syria fronts in 1917 and became a prisoner of war by the British while suffering malaria during his command of the 5th Battery of the 41st Regiment on 19 September 1918. Gursel was kept as a prisoner of war in Egypt until 6 October 1920. During his presidency much later, when interviewed by the foreign press as to why he had not learned English during his captivity, he somewhat regretfully recalled that he was so frustrated to be a captive, he protested and studied French in the British camp instead. After his release, Cemal Gursel returned to Anatolia to re-join Mustafa Kemal subsequent to Erzurum Congress and took part in all the western front campaigns in the Turkish War of Independence between 1920-1923. He was promo...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=113221