Cevat Çobanlı

Cevat Çobanlı 1307 (1891)-P. 4[1]
Nickname	18 Mart (5 Mart) Kahramanı (Hero of March 18)
Born	September 14, 1870(1870-09-14) Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died	13 March 1938(1938-03-13) (aged 67) Istanbul, Turkey
Buried at	Erenköy Mezarlığı
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire  Turkey
Years of service	Ottoman: 1891-1920 Turkey: January 15, 1922-September 14, 1935
Rank	Birinci Ferik
Commands held	Dardanelles Fortified Area Command, XIV Corps, XV Corps, XIV Corps, VIII Corps, Second Army (deputy), Eighth Army, War Minister, Chief of the General Staff, El-Cezire Front, Third Army, member of the Supreme Military Council
Battles/wars	Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars First World War War of Independence

Cevat Çobanlı (September 14, 1870^[2] or 1871 – March 13, 1938^[1]) was a military commander of the Ottoman Army, War Minister (Harbiye Nazırı) of the Ottoman Empire and a general of Turkish Army.

Ottoman era

Family and schools

Cevat was born on September 14, 1870 or in 1871 in Sultanahmet (Istanbul, Ottoman Empire) to mother Emine Hanım and father Müşir Şakir Pasha.

After graduating from Galatasaray High School, he entered Harbiye Mektibi (Mekteb-i Fünûn-u Harbiyye-i Şâhâne) in 1888. He completed the military school as the fourth of the class on 1891 and joined the Ottoman military as an Infantry Second Lieutenant (Mülâzım-ı Sani).^[1] And he continued to study in the War Academy (Staff College, Mekteb-i Erkân-ı Harbiye-i Şâhâne), present day: Harp Akademisi) and in 1892, he was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant (Mülâzım-ı Evvel).^[1] In 1894, he graduated from Academy as a Staff Captain (Erkân-ı Harp Yüzbaşısı) and started to serve for the General Staff of Palace (Maiyet-i Seniyye Erkân-ı Harbiyesi) as an aide-de-camp of Sultan.^[3]

Balkan Wars

World War I

Malta exile

He was one of the Malta exiles.

Republican era

Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, painter Aliye Berger, and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid were his nephews and niece.

Medals and Decorations

• Order of the Medjidieh 1st Class with Sword
• Gold Medal of Liyakat
• Gold Medal of Imtiyaz
• Bulgaria Order of Military Merit (Bulgaria)
• Bulgaria Order of St Alexander 2nd Class
• Spain Order of Isabella the Catholic 2nd Class
• Prussia Order of the Crown (Prussia) 2nd Class
• Prussia Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class
• Prussia Order of the Red Eagle
• Bavaria Military Merit Order (Bavaria) 2nd Class with Sword
• Bavaria Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown 1st Class with Sword
• Austria-Hungary Military Merit Medal (Austria-Hungary) 2nd Class
• Austria-Hungary Red Cross 1st Class
• Austria-Hungary Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) 1st Class
• Austria-Hungary Order of the Iron Crown 2nd Class Military
• Medal of Independence with Red Ribbon & Citation

Sources

Cevat Pasha and Mustafa Kemal Bey on the daily Tasvir-i Efkâr dated October 29, 1915.

1. ^ ^{a b c d} T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademlerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 22. (Turkish)
2. ^ Mesut Aydın, Türkiye ve Irak Hudûdu Mes'elesi, Avrasya Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi Yayınları, 2001, p. 53.
3. ^ Genelkurmay, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademlerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, p. 23.

See also

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

Media related to Cevat Çobanlı at Wikimedia Commons

Persondata
Name	Cobanli, Cevat
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	September 14, 1870
Place of birth	Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	March 13, 1938
Place of death	Istanbul, Turkey