Raymond Westerling (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raymond Pierre Paul Westerling (31 August 1919 - 26 November 1987), nicknamed the Turk, was a Dutch military officer. He waged a bloody pacification campaign in the Sulawesi during the Indonesian National Revolution after the Second World War, and staged a coup d' tat in Bandung and Jakarta in January 1950. Westerling was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, as a child from a Dutch father and a Greek mother. During the Second World War, Westerling would join the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and receive his training in England. After the War, Westerling would be sent to the Dutch East Indies to suppress the Indonesian Republicans.