Nuri Conker

Nuri Conker 1318-P. 15[1]
On the deck of Ertuğrul yacht on June 5, 1928. From left to right: Nuri Bey (Conker) ve Salih Bey (Bozok), Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk), Fahreddin Pasha (Altay, behind Mustafa Kemal), Shukri Naili Pasha (Gökberk).
Born	December 0, 1882(1882-12-00) Salonica (Thessaloniki), Ottoman Empire
Died	2 January 1937(1937-01-02) (aged 55) Ankara, Turkey
Buried at	Ankara Şehitliği State Cemetery
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire  Turkey
Years of service	Ottoman: 1902-1920 Turkey: June, 1920-1927
Rank	Miralay
Commands held	Chief of Staff of the 1st Division, 24th Regiment, Military attaché to The Hague General Director of the Press and Intelligence, Ankara Command, 41st Division (Governor of Adana Vilayet)
Battles/wars	Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars First World War War of Independence
Other work	Member of the GNAT (Kütahya) Member of the GNAT (Gaziantep) Member of the administrative board of the Türkiye İş Bankası

Nuri Conker (full name: Mehmet Nuri Conker, 1882; Salonica (Thessaloniki) - January 2, 1937; Ankara) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army, then became a Turkish politician.

Nuri Conker was the oldest friend of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk).^[2] His sister Dürriye Hanım married Salih Bozok. According to Philip Hendrick Stoddard, he was a brother-in-law of Süleyman Askerî Bey.^[3]

Works

• Conker, Mehmed Nuri, Zâbit ve Kumandan, İş Bankası Yayınları, Ankara, 1959. (He wrote this book in 1930, Mustafa Kemal's Zâbit ve Kumandan ile Hasbihal was the answer to Nuri's work.)

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 Kademlerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 174. (Turkish)
2. ^ Erik Jan Zürcher, The Unionist Factor: Tthe Role of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926, BRILL, 1984, ISBN 9789004072626, p. 48.
3. ^ The Ottoman Government and the Arabs, 1911 to 1918: A Preliminary Study of the Teskilât-ı Mahsusa, Princeton University, 1963, p. 175.

External links

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Persondata
Name	Conker, Nuri
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1882
Place of birth	Salonica (Thessaloniki), Ottoman Empire
Date of death	January 2, 1937
Place of death	Ankara, Turkey