Hamdi Çami

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The July 14, 1926 edition of the Turkish newspaper Milliyet , when the verdict on the conspirators against Mustafa Kemal Pasha was passed in Izmir.

Miralay Hamdi Bey , also Hamdi Baba , Hamdi Çami or Kambur Hamdi ( Turkish for "Buckliger Hamdi" ; * 1861 in Margariti ; † 1927 ) was an Ottoman officer and Turkish politician of Albanian origin. He was a colonel in the Ottoman Army and a member of the Ottoman Parliament .

Life

Hamdi Bey was born as the son of Hajji Mahmud Effendi in what is now northwestern Greece ( Epirus ), which was then settled by Çamen Albanians. After attending school at the local madrasah , he entered the ranks of the Ottoman armed forces. In the Turkish-Greek War of 1897 he had the supreme command of the troops in the Preveze area , which is why he later became a lieutenant colonel in the Ottoman army. In 1903 he rose to the rank of Miralay and commanding the gendarmerie in Vilayet Skutari . Later he commanded the gendarmerie regiment of the Vilayet Trebizond .

On April 26, 1909 he was elected deputy of the sanjak Preveza. Together with nine other well-known Albanian parliamentarians in the Chamber of Deputies , he supported the use of Latin script in the standardization of the Albanian alphabet .

He became honorary president of the so-called MM (Mim-Mim) group on July 21, 1921, which represented a secret network of spies and supporters for Mustafa Kemal Pascha during the Turkish Liberation War . Because of his participation in the "Izmir conspiracy" in 1926 against the founder of the state and President Mustafa Kemal, he was arrested. The conspirators were accused of wanting to murder Mustafa Kemal. Hamdi Bey was released on August 26, 1926 - unlike Cavid Bey - because no evidence of complicity was found with him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ali Birinci, "Ali Kemâli Aksüt'ün Filât Hâtıraları", Osmanlı Tarihi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkez Dergisi , Sayı 4 (1992), p. 465. (tr.)
  2. ↑ a b c d Hülya Küçük: The role of the Bektāshīs in Turkey's national struggle . Brill, 2002, ISBN 90-04-12443-8 , pp. 286 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 3, 2010]).
  3. ↑ George Walter Gawrych: The crescent and the eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913 . IBTauris, 2006, ISBN 1-84511-287-3 , pp. 181 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 3, 2010]).
personal data
SURNAME Çami, Hamdi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miralay Hamdi Bey; Hamdi Baba; Kambur Hamdi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman officer and Turkish politician of Albanian origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Margariti
DATE OF DEATH 1927