Nureddin Pasha

This article is about an Ottoman army officer. For an Ottoman grand vizier, see Abdurrahman Nureddin Pasha.

Nureddin İbrahim (Konyar) 1309 (1893)-P. 31
Miralay Nureddin Bey
Nickname	Sakallı Nureddin
Born	0 December 1873(1873-12-00) Bursa, Ottoman Empire
Died	18 February 1932(1932-02-18) (aged 59) Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Buried at	Beylerbeyi Küplüce Mezarlığı[1][2][3]
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire  Turkey
Years of service	Ottoman: 1893–1919 Turkey: July 1920 – January 1925
Rank	Ferik
Commands held	4th Division, Iraq Area Command (Governor of Basra, Baghdad), 9th Corps, Muğla and Antalya Area Command, 21th Corps, 17th Corps, 25th Corps, Aidin Area Command (Governor of Aidin Vilayet), Central Army, 1st Army
Battles/wars	1897 Greco-Turkish War Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars First World War War of Independence
Other work	Member of the GNAT (Bursa)

Nureddin Pasha (Turkish: Nurettin Paşa, Nureddin İbrahim Paşa or Nureddin İbrahim Konyar ), often called Bearded Nureddin (Turkish: Sakallı Nurettin) (1873–1932), was a Turkish military officer, who served in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and in the Turkish army during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). To distinguish him from namesakes, he was called so, because he was the only high-ranking Ottoman officer during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) sporting a beard.

Ottoman era

He was born in 1873 in Bursa. His father, Field Marshal (Müşir) İbrahim Pasha^[4] was a high-ranking officer in the Ottoman army. He entered the Ottoman Military Academy (Mekteb-i Füsûn-u Harbiyye-i Şâhâne) in Pangaltı, in 1890. He completed the Military Academy as the thirty-oneth of the class in1893 and joined the Ottoman military as an Infantry Second Lieutenant (Mülâzım-ı Sani).^[4] Nureddin Pasha was one of the few to reach high rank without having attended a staff college.^[5] He knew Arabic, French, German and Russian languages.^[4]

He served in the 40th Infantry Battalion of the Fifth Army between March–April 1893. He served in the headquarters of the Hassa Ordusu (First Army) between April 1893 and October 1898.^[6] On 31 January 1895, he was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant (Mülâzım-ı Evvel) and on 22 July 1895, Captain (Yüzbaşı).^[4]

He took part in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 as the aide-de-camp of the commander-in-chief Edhem Pasha.^[6] After going back to Istanbul, he was assigned to the 1st department (chief of operations) of the headquarter of the First Army. In October 1898, he was appointed to the aide-de-camp of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. In 1901, he was promoted to the rank of Major (Binbaşı). He was appointed Staff Group of the Command of Bulgarian Border between 1901 and 1902.^[6] Nureddin Bey fought guerrillas in Macedonia between 1902 and 1903.^[5]

In December 1907, he was assigned to the prestigious Third Army headquarters in Salonika. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Kaymakam) in 1907 and Colonel (Miralay) in 1908. Before the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, when Müşir İbrahim Pasha attempted to establish discipline in the army, Major Djemal Bey and other members of the Committee of Union and Progress approached his son Nureddin Bey, with warning to the Müşir İbrahim Pasha to keep off their patch.^[7] Nureddin Bey joined the Committee of Union and Progress (membership number was 6436^[8]). On 19 August 1909, he was demoted to Major, because of the Law for the Purge of Military Ranks (Tasfiye-i Rüteb-i Askeriye Kanunu)^[4] and sent to reserve under the First Army. In September 1909, he was appointed to the Governor of Küçükçekmece. In April 1910, he was appointed to the vice commander of the 77th Infantry Regiment by 1910^[5] and after became the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 83rd Infantry Regiment.^[6]

In February 1911, Nureddin Bey served on the XIV Corps staff fighting insurgents in Yemen and promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In November he became reserve under the XIV Corps. By 1913 he returned from Yemen to command the 9th Infantry Regiment in the last stage of Balkan War. In 1913 he served with the model force (numune kıtası) formed in conjunction with Liman von Sanders's German Military Mission (German: Deutsche Militärmissionen im Osmanischen Reich, Turkish: Alman Hey'et-i Askeriyye-i Islâhiyyesi).^[6]

World War

Major General Townshend's retreat and Colonel Nureddin Bey's pursuit/encirclement operations

Major General Townshend

Main article: Mesopotamian campaign

By April 1914 he assumed command of the 4th Division (Dördüncü Fırka).^[5] The commander of the Iraq Area Command Süleyman Askerî Bey committed suicide on 14 April 1915 and Nureddin Bey was assigned to the Iraq Area Command on 20 April. He arrived in June to take command of the battered army in Iraq and he was appointed the Governor of Basra Province and Baghdad Province at the same time.^[6]

In November 1915, Nureddin Bey stopped Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend's 6th Poona Infantry Division of British Indian Army at the Battle of Ctesiphon,^[9] and then pursued his retreating opponents to the town of Kut. Several attacks failed to take the town, and he settled down to a siege which ended in a British surrender.^[10] German Generalfeldmarschall Colmar von der Goltz arrived at Baghdad on 21 December 1915, changed the name of the Command as the Iraq Army (Irak Ordusu),^[11] inspected his positions and later left to start an invasion of Persia.^[12] On 20 January 1916, Enver Pasha, Ottoman Minister of War, replaced Nureddin Bey with Colonel Halil Bey^[13] and Nureddin Bey was appointed to the commander of the IX Corps and the provisional commander of the Third Army.^[6]

In October 1916, he was appointed to the commander of the Muğla and Antalya Area Command (Muğla ve Antalya Havalisi Komutanlığı) and ordered to establish the XXI Corps (he became the commander of this corps) based in Aidin^[6] and became the Deputy Governor of Aidin Vilayet on 25 October 1918.^[14] He was promoted to the rank of Mirliva in 1918.^[4]

After the armistice

Main articles: Greek landing at Smyrna and Occupation of Smyrna

After the Armistice of Mudros, on November 1918, he was appointed to the commander of the XVII Corps based in İzmir and the Governor of Aidin Vilayet at same time. On 30 December 1918 he was appointed to the commander of the XXV Corps based in Istanbul.^[6] On 2 February 1919, because of the breaking out of the rebellion in Urla, he was reassigned to the Governor of Aidin Vilayet and Aidin Area Command (Aydın Bölge Komutanığı).^[15]

Nureddin Pasha established a consultation committee consisting of delegates of parties, societies and merchant clubs in Smyrna (Izmir), and supported activities of the Society for the Defence of Ottoman Rights in Izmir (İzmir Müdafaa-i Hukuk-ı Osmaniye Cemiyeti).^[16] However, activities of the society slowed down with Nurettin Pasha's departure from İzmir. In order to weaken Turkish defense against Greek landing at İzmir, Allied Powers, especially the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, wanted to remove Nurettin Pasha from İzmir. Before the Occupation of İzmir, nationalist general Nureddin Pasha was recalled the Governor, who had fallen foul of Chrysostomos of Smyrna.^[17] "Kambur" Ahmed Izzet Bey was appointed to new governor on 11 March, and retired general Ali Nadir Pasha was appointed to new military commander on 22 March.^[16]

War of Independence

Mirliva "Sakallı" Nureddin Pasha

In June 1920, he passed to Anatolia to participate in national movement and he was appointed to the commander of the Central Army (Merkez Ordusu) based in Amasya of some 10,000 men on 9 December 1920.^[15] The position of the Pontic Greeks took a turn for the worse.^[18] He expelled American missionaries and put some local Christians on trial for treason.^[19]

Koçgiri Rebellion

Main article: Koçgiri Rebellion

Nureddin Pasha led against Koçgiri rebels a force of some 3,000 cavalrymen and irregulars including Topal Osman's Laz cut-throats.^[19] Rebels were crushed by 17 June 1921.^[20]

According to some sources, Nurettin Pasha said:

Nurettin Pasha said (as to some sources, this words belong to Topal Osman^[21]):

In Turkey, we annihilated people who speak "zo" (Armenians), I'm going to cleanup people who speak "lo" (Kurdish) by their roots.^[22][23]

—Turkish original, Türkiye'de (Memlekette) Zo (Ermeniler) diyenleri temizledik, Lo (Kürtler) diyenlerin köklerini de ben temizleyeceğim.^[21]

The severity of the repression led to angry debates in the Grand National Assembly. The assembly decided to send Nureddin Pasha to a commission of enquiry and to put him on trial. Nureddin Pasha was relieved on 3 November 1921 and recalled to Ankara. But Mustafa Kemal prevented a trial.^[19]

Pontic Greek Genocide

Main article: Greek Genocide

On 9 June, Greek destroyer Panthir and battleship Kilkis bombed İnebolu. Nureddin Pasha advised the general staff of the Ankara government that in view of the danger of a Greek landing in Samsun, all male Greeks aged between 16 and 50 years should be deported to Amasya, Tokat and Karahisar-ı Şarkî (present day: Şebinkarahisar) by the order numbered 2082 and dated 12 January 1921.^[24] The Ankara government accepted it on 16 June.^[19] And the Central Army deported nearly 21,000 persons and the Samsun Independent Tribunal passed 485 death sentences. After the Greek armored cruiser Georgios Averof bombed Samsun on 7 June 1922, Greeks in the areas of western and southern Anatolia under Turkish nationalist control were deported by order of the Ankara government.^[25]

Nureddin Pasha is infamous among Greeks and Armenians for his advocacy of the extermination of those races^{[citation needed]}. According to Taner Akçam, he was responsible for the massacres of thousands of Ottoman Greeks during the Greek Genocide.^[26]

Great Offensive

Ferik "Sakallı" Nureddin Pasha

Main article: Battle of Dumlupınar

After the commander of the First Army Ali İhsan (Sâbis) was dismissed and sent to the Konya Court Martial, the command of the First Army was offered to Ali Fuat (Cebesoy), and then Refet (Bele). But neither man wanted to serve under İsmet (İnönü).^[27] On 29 June 1922, Nureddin Pasha was appointed to the commander of the First Army replacing Ali İhsan^[15] and on 31 August, he was promoted to the rank of Ferik.^[4]

Great Fire of Smyrna

Chrysostomos of Smyrna

Main articles: Great Fire of Smyrna and Chrysostomos of Smyrna

He was to re-enter into İzmir at the head of the First Army on 9 September 1922. According to Ütkan Kocatürk, he was assigned the Military Governor (Askerî Vali) of İzmir,^[28] but according to other sources, the Commander of the I Corps Mirliva İzzettin Pasha (Çalışlar) was appointed the Military Governor^[29][30][31] and Abdülhalik Bey (Renda) was appointed the Civil Governor of İzmir.^[31] Nureddin Pasha summoned the Greek archbishop Chrysostomos of Smyrna and accused him of treason. Nureddin Pasha pushed him out of the residence and invited mob of Muslims to deal with him. He was lynched to death.^[32]

Falih Rıfkı (Atay), the Turkish nationalist journalist who had come from Istanbul to İzmir to interview Mustafa Kemal, noted in his diary about the Great Fire of Smyrna that began on 13 September 1922 as follows:

Why were we burning down İzmir? Were we afraid that if waterfront konaks, hotels and taverns stayed in place, we would never be able to get rid of the minorities? When the Armenians were being deported in the First World War, we had burned down all the habitable districts and neighbourhoods in Anatolian towns and cities with this very same fear. This does not solely derive from an urge for destruction. There is also some feeling of inferiority in it. It was as if anywhere that resembled Europe was destined to remain Christian and foreign and to be denied to us. If there were another war and we were defeated, would it be sufficient guarantee of preserving the Turkishness of the city if we had left Izmir as a devastated expanse of vacant lots? Were it not for Nureddin Pasha, whom I know to be a dyed-in-the-wool fanatic and a rabble-rouser, I do not think this tragedy would have gone to the bitter end. He has doubtless been gaining added strength from the unforgiving vengeful feelings of the soldiers and officers who have seen the debris and the weeping and agonized population of the Turkish towns which the Greeks have burned to ashes all the way from Afyon.^[33][34][35]

After the Armistice of Mudanya, his army was relocated in İzmit by the order numbered 42 and dated 11 October 1922.^[36]

Ali Kemal Bey

Ali Kemal Bey

Main article: Ali Kemal Bey

During his time as commander in İzmit, Nureddin Pasha arranged for the kidnapping of former Minister of Interior Ali Kemal Bey. He was seized on 4 November 1922, according to retired Staff Colonel Rahmi Apak (1887–1963) by two police commissars named Mazlûm and Cem,^[37] according to historian Cemal Kutay (1909–2006) by agents of the secret organization M. M. (ﻡﻡ, Mim Mim, abbreviation of Müsellâh Müdâfaa-i Milliye means Armed National Defence)^[38] while at a barber's shop in / in front of the Tokatlıyan Hotel and taken out of the British zone to Kumkapı. At night he was put on and brought to İzmit. Staff Captain Rahmi (Apak) ordered a reserve officer Necip Ali (Küçüka) (1892–1941), who was the intern prosecutor, to examine Ali Kemal Bey. After that Ali Kemal Bey was called by Nureddin Pasha.^[37] Nureddin Pasha told Ali Kemal to transfer to the military court and Ali Kemal Bey replied that I'm ready to go to court.^[39] But Nureddin Pasha ordered Rahmi:

Now gather a few hundred people in front of the large gate. Let them kill Ali Kemal, let them lynch him, when he is exiting through the gate.^[40]

Nureddin Pasha and Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha in Gebze (17 January 1923)

Rahmi hesitated to execute this order and sent Captain "Kel" Sait to Nureddin Pasha.^[39] Rahmi said to Necip Ali: Go ahead Necip Ali Bey, take Ali Kemal Beyefendi to the military court. Necip Ali and Ali Kemal exited through the gate and attacked by mob. Necip Ali, who was uninformed about operation, was also attacked and came back to Rahmi's room to complaint about their situations. Ali Kemal Bey was beaten and stoned, got knifed in his back and laid down to the ground. Mob stripped and took his new suits. They robbed the ring on his finger, gold watch, whatever he has in his pockets. Then they bound him with rope at his ankles and dragged downhill him　wearing only underpants and shirts.^[41]

Nureddin Pasha made a scaffold on the small tunnel, where the railway passes, next to the station and hanged the dead body of Ali Kemal Bey to show İsmet Pasha who travelled through the town by train a few days later on his way to the Conference of Lausanne.^[41]

Zeki Kuneralp, the second son of Ali Kemal, wrote in his memoirs that his father was deliberately murdered^{[42][page needed]}.

Geçit Teşkilâtı

Main article: Occupation of Constantinople

Nureddin Pasha sent civil servants to buy 3,000 used civilian suits. He ordered soldiers and officers of infantry battalions and made them pass the British line with those suits at night company by company. First party of them was placed in a boots factory in Beykoz. Two more battalion were sent to pass the Bosphorus and dispatched to houses, mosques and madrasas around Rumeli Hisarı. After the both sides of the Bosphorus were hold by a regiment, they surrounded the British garrisons in Haydarpaşa and Kadıköy. Nureddin Pasha appointed Cavalry Lieutenant Colonel Nidai Bey as commander of this organization. Important places in Istanbul were occupied by these armed infantries with civilian clothes.^[43] This organization named K.T. (ﮒ ﺕ, Kef Te, abbreviation of Geçit Teşkilâtı means "Passage Organization") that was called Köfte (meatball) by Mehmetçiks, was established by the General Staff and administrated by the First Army. K.T. was disbanded on 8 August 1923, after the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne.^[44] The Turkish military units belonging to the III Corps (Üçüncü Kolordu) under the command of Mirliva Shukri Naili (Gökberk) entered Istanbul on 6 October 1923.

Republican era

Deputy

In June 1923, when the First Army was dissolved, he went on leave without command. Kâzım Karabekir was appointed as the First Army inspector. In March 1924, he was appointed to the member of the Supreme Military Council. In December 1924, a by-election of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was held in Bursa, Nureddin Pasha stood as an independent and defeated the candidate of the People's Party. He resigned membership after elected as the deputy of Bursa for the Grand National Assembly. However, on 17 January 1925, the status of deputy of Nureddin Pasha was rejected by the Grand National Assembly on the ground of his military register. Nureddin Pasha retired from the army on his own terms.^[15] And when the election was held again on 2 February, Nureddin Pasha increased his vote.

Hat Law

In November 1925, Nureddin Pasha argued that the draft of the Hat Law (Şapka İktisasına Dair Kanun) violated the constitution. But other deputies competed in denouncing him an enemy of the popular will. The Justice Minister Mahmud Esad (Bozkurt) declared The grant of freedom is not to be a toy in the hands of reactionaries...The things for the country's interests can not be contrary to the Constitution, was determined not to be..^[45]

Nutuk

In October 1927, Mustafa Kemal criticized him in Nutuk. According to Mustafa Kemal, in 1923 Nureddin Pasha made Âbit Süreyya to publish a booklet of biography (Tercüme-i hal), in booklet Nureddin Pasha was described as the surrounder of Kut-Al-Amara, the defender of Baghdad, the vanquisher of Yemen, Ctesiphon, Western Anatolia, Afyon Karahiar, Dumlupınar, the conqueror of İzmir.^[46]

Death

On 18 February 1932, he died in his house at Kızlarağası Çeşmesi Street (present day: Müverrih Ağa Street) number 23 in Kadıköy Hasanpaşa neighbourhood. He was married to Nazmiye Hanım (surname: Türe, death 1951) and had two daughters, Semiha Hanım (1896–1950) and Memduha Hanım (1904–1970). Semiha Hanım was married to Hüseyin Pasha, Memduha Hanım was married to Major General Eşref Alpdoğan^[1] (1327-P. 19).^[47] Some researchers including Uğur Mumcu confused him with the Governor of the Fourth Inspectorate-General Lieutenant General Hüseyin Abdullah Alpdoğan^[48] (1310-P. 12).^[49]

Inscription on his tombstone:

G. Nureddin, Selman-i Pak Muharebesi'ni kazanan, Kut'ül-amara'yı muhasara eden kuvvetlere ve Aydın'da 21., İstanbul'da 25., İzmir'de 17. kolordulara, Milli Mücadele'de ise Amasya'da merkez ordusuna ve Afyon'dan İzmir'e giden, İstanbul'un kurtuluşu için İzmit'te toplanan 1. Ordu'ya kumanda etmiş olan general Nureddin İbrahim Konyar'ın mezarıdır. Ruhu daima aziz ve şad olsun. Basra, Bağdad ve İzmir Valiliklerinde bulunmuş ve doğduğu Bursa'dan meb'us seçilmiştir. Müşir İbrahim Paşa'nın oğludur. 1872-18 February 1932^[1]

After the 12 September coup d'état, to select Atatürk's comrades who would be transfer to the State Cemetrery, the Turkish Historical Society identified Nureddin Pasha as one of the Atatürk's closest 50 comrades during the War of Independence and made him honorable member of the Atatürk Research Center. Moreover, Nureddin Pasha was shown not Ferik but Orgeneral (four-star rank) and fourth man after İsmet İnönü and Fevzi Çakmak.^[50] And these decisions were accepted by the General Staff. But because of the public reaction to the decision, the General Staff gave up the transfer of the Nureddin Pasha's body to the State Cemetery.^[51][52]

See also

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

Medals and Decorations

• Order of Medjidie, 5th class
• Order of Osmanieh, 3rd class
• Order of Medjidie with Sword, 2nd class
• Gold Liakat Medal
• Legion of Honour
• Iron Cross
• Medal of Independence with Red Ribbon & Citation

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35. ^ Falih Rıfkı Atay, Çankaya: Atatürk'ün doğumundan ölümüne kadar, Betaş, 1984, p. 325. (Turkish) In Turkish: Bildiklerimin doğrusunu yazmaya karar verdiğim için o zamanki notlarımdan bir sayfayı buraya aktarmak istiyorum: «Yağamacılar da ateşin büyümesine yardım ettiler. En çok esef ettiğim şeylerden biri, bir fotoğrafçı dükkânını yağmaya giden subay, bütün taarruz harbleri boyunca çekmiş olduğu filmleri otelde bıraktığı için, bu tarihî vesikaların yanıp gitmesi olmuştur. İzmir'i niçin yakıyorduk? Kordun konakları, oteller ve gazinolar kalırsa, azınlıklardan kurtulamıyacağımızdan mı korkuyorduk? Birinci Dünya Harbinde Ermeniler tehcir olunduğu vakit, Anadolu şehir ve kasabalarının oturulabilir ne kadar mahalle ve semtleri varsa, gene bu korku ile yakmıştık. Bu kuru kuruya tahripçilik hissinden gelme bir şey değildir. Bunda bir aşağılık duygusunun da etkisi var. Bir Avrupa parçasına benzeyen her köşe, sanki hıristiyan veya yabancı olmak, mutlak bizim olmamak kaderinde idi. Bir harb daha olsa da yenilmiş olsak, İzmir'i arsalar halinde bırakmış olmak, şehrin Türklüğünü korumaya kâfi gelecek miydi? Koyu bir mutaassıp, öfkelendirici bir demagog olarak tanımış olduğum Nureddin Paşa olmasaydı, bu facianın sonuna kadar devam etmiyeceğni sanıyorum. Nureddin Paşa, tâ Afyon'dan beri Yunanlıların yakıp kül ettiği Türk kasabalarının enkazını ve ağlayıp çırpınan halkını görerek gelen subayların ve neferlerin affetmez hınç ve intikam hislerinden de şüphesiz kuvvet almakta idi.»
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39. ^ ^{a b} Rahmi Apak, Yetmişlik Subayın Hatıraları, p. 264.
40. ^ Turkish text: Şimdi sokaktan birkaç yüz kişiyi büyük kapının önüne toplat. Kapıdan çıkarken Ali Kemal'i öldürsünler, linç etsinler., Rahmi Apak, Yetmişlik Subayın Hatıraları, p. 264.
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45. ^ Turkish text: Hürriyetin nasibi, irticanın elinde oyuncak olmak değildir... Ülkenin çıkarlarına olan şeyler hiç bir zaman Anayasaya aykırı olamaz, olmaması mukayyettir., Andrew Mango, Atatürk, p. 436.
46. ^ In Turkish: Kûtülamare muhasırı, Bağdat müdafii, Yemen, Selmanpâk, Garbı Anadolu, Afyon Karahisar, Dumlupınar, İzmir muharebatı galibi ve İzmir fâtihi, "Nurettin Paşa'nın bağımsız milletvekili olma teşebbüsü ve yayınladığı hal tercümesi", Nutuk (Turkish).
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50. ^ Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu Kanunu (Turkish)
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52. ^ Halil Nebiler, Türkiye'de şeriatın kısa tarihi, Ütay Yayınları, 1994, p. 87. (Turkish)

External links

• Fikret Karagöz, "Biz Nurettin Paşa yaktı biliyorduk", Taraf, 15 April 2008. (Turkish)
• Engin Ardıç, "Yaklaşıyor paşam!", Sabah, 9 April 2010. (Turkish)
• Mehmet Altan, "Sakallı Nurettin Paşa torunları", Star, 21 April 2010. (Turkish)

Military offices
Preceded by Süleyman Askerî Bey	Commander of the Iraq Area Command Iraq Army 20 April 1915 – 20 January 1916	Succeeded by Halil (Kut)
Preceded by	Commander of the Central Army 9 December 1920 – 3 November 1921	Succeeded by
Preceded by Ali İhsan (Sâbis)	Commander of the First Army 29 July 1922 – 15 August 1923	Succeeded by Kâzım Karabekir

Persondata
Name	Pasha, Nureddin
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1873
Place of birth	Bursa, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	1932
Place of death	Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey