Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez

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.

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Cafer Tayyar (Eğilmez)
Born	1877 (1877) Priştine (Pristina), Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died	January 3, 1958(1958-01-03) (aged 80–81) Istanbul, Turkey
Buried	Karacaahmet Mezarlığı
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire  Turkey
Years of service	Ottoman: 1901–1920 Turkey: 1920 – January 1928
Rank	Mirliva
Commands held	1st Division, II Corps, I Corps, II Corps, I Corps Trakya Kuva-yi Milliye, VII Corps
Battles/wars	Balkan Wars First World War War of Independence
Other work	Member of the GNAT (Edirne) Governor of the Samsun Province

See also

• List of high-ranking commanders of the Turkish War of Independence

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)

External lınks

• Zülal Keleş, "Cafer Tayyar Paşa" March 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi, Sayı 44, Cilt: XV, Temmuz 1999. (in Turkish)

External links

  Media related to Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez at Wikimedia Commons