Ahmet Muhtar Merter, also known as Ahmed Muhtar Bey (? İstanbul - 1959; Istanbul) was a Turkish irregular fighter in the Turkish War of Independence.
Although he briefly served as an assistant in the faculty, he later on moved to Tavşanlı (a town in mid-west Anatolia) to participate in the Turkish War of Independence.
The matter of the status of Mosul was deferred, since Curzon refused to be budged on the British position that the area was part of Iraq.
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Following the Turkish War of Independence he became known as Atatürk (Father of the Turks) and became the first president of the new Republic of Turkey, where he is acknowledged as the nation's "founding father".
While in Paris, Topuz interviewed for the Turkish daily newspapers notable people like painter Fikret Mualla (1903–1967), poet Nazım Hikmet (1902–1963), journalist Zekeriya Sertel (1890–1980), painter Abidin Dino (1913–1993)), painter Nejat Devrim (1923–1995) and General Nikolaos Trikoupis (1869–1956), who commanded Greek troops during the Turkish War of Independence and became a prisoner of war.
On her father's side, Johnson is great-granddaughter of Ali Kemal Bey, a liberal Turkish journalist and the interior minister in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, who was murdered during the Turkish War of Independence in 1922.
During the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1922) resistance in the area was led by one Cafer Efe, whose statue is in the town.
The Turkish–Armenian War, known as the Eastern Front of the Turkish War of Independence in Turkey, refers to a conflict in the autumn of 1920 between the First Republic of Armenia and the provisional government of the Turkish national movement, following the signing of the Treaty of Sevres.
Bekir Sami Günsav (1879-1934), officer of the Ottoman Army and a commander of the Turkish War of Independence
Battle of the Gediz, near the river, during the Turkish War of Independence
Mehmet Arif Bey: "Ayıcı Arif" (1882-1926) military officer of the Ottoman Army and a commander of the Turkish War of Independence.
Mehmet Arif Şenerim: (1877-1951) military officer of the Ottoman Army and a commander of the Turkish War of Independence.
Battle of Sakarya, one of the major battles in the Turkish War of Independence