Fahrettin Altay

Fahreddin Pasha, 1923

Fahrettin Altay and Kemal Ataturk (October 3, 1934)

Fahrettin Altay (born January 12, 1880 in İşkodra , Ottoman Empire , † October 25, 1974 in Emirgan, Istanbul ) was an Ottoman officer with the rank of colonel and Turkish general .

Fahrettin Bey was the son of İsmail Bey and Hayriye Hanım from İşkodra (today: Shkodër ). After his military training in Istanbul, Mustafa Kemal's confidante served in the 4th Ottoman Army in Eastern Anatolia from 1904 , which he viewed as an exile, as the regime of Sultan Abdülhamid II suspected him of liberal positions. After the Young Turks came to power in 1908, he remained in this position and led a punitive expedition against the Kurds of the Dersim area (see the later Dersim uprising ), which was part of a campaign against a number of ethnic minorities who were against the new Rulers showed dissatisfied. Fahrettin Altay remained preoccupied with the Kurdish question during his military career, including leading the Kurdish Hamidiye regiments he had reorganized in 1913 in the Balkan War against Eastern Thrace .

He achieved fame as the commander of the 5th Cavalry Corps, which fought in various battles during the Turkish Liberation War. He achieved his greatest success during the famous Battle of Dumlupınar , in which he managed to break through the Greek lines and thereby cut off the numerically superior enemy troops from supplies and communications. During the chaotic retreat of the Greeks that followed, he succeeded in capturing their general Nikolaos Trikoupis . The result of this battle is seen as the beginning of the withdrawal of Greek troops from Asia Minor .

Altay's memoirs are an important source for the history of Turkey.

In honor of Fahrettin Altay, the new main battle tank of the Turkish army was named Altay .

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↑ A letter from Mustafa Kemal to Fahreddin Bey from 1919 shows how the former developed his understanding of generals as the anchor of a liberal constitution. M. Naim Turfan: Rise of the Young Turks. Politics, the Military and Ottoman Collapse. Victoria House, New York 2000, ISBN 1-86064-533-X , p. 136.
↑ ^a ^b Janet Klein: The Margins of Empire. Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2011, ISBN 978-0-8047-7570-0 , p. 200, endnote 66.
^ For the paragraph Andrew Mango : Ataturk and the Kurds. In: Middle Eastern Studies. Vol. 35, 1999, No. 4, special edition: Sylvia Kedourie (Ed.): Seventy-Five Years of the Turkish Republic. Pp. 1–25, here p. 3.

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SURNAME	Fahrettin Altay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ottoman officer with the rank of colonel and Turkish general
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	İşkodra , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 1974
Place of death	Emirgan, Istanbul

[1] A letter from Mustafa Kemal to Fahreddin Bey from 1919 shows how the former developed his understanding of generals as the anchor of a liberal constitution. M. Naim Turfan: Rise of the Young Turks. Politics, the Military and Ottoman Collapse. Victoria House, New York 2000, ISBN 1-86064-533-X , p. 136.

[klein-2] Janet Klein: The Margins of Empire. Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2011, ISBN 978-0-8047-7570-0 , p. 200, endnote 66.

[3] For the paragraph Andrew Mango : Ataturk and the Kurds. In: Middle Eastern Studies. Vol. 35, 1999, No. 4, special edition: Sylvia Kedourie (Ed.): Seventy-Five Years of the Turkish Republic. Pp. 1–25, here p. 3.