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Also known as Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak

Turkish military officer and statesperson (1876–1950)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Türkiye

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Key facts

Preceded by
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Succeeded by
Rauf Orbay
Prime minister
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
President
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , İsmet İnönü
Born
( 1876-01-12 ) 12 January 1876, Cihangir , Istanbul , Ottoman Empire
Died
10 April 1950 (1950-04-10) (aged 74), Teşvikiye , Istanbul , Turkey
Resting place
Eyüp Cemetery
Party
Nation Party ( Turkish Republic , 1948–50) , Democrat Party (Turkish Republic, 1946–48) , Committee of Union and Progress ( Ottoman Empire )
Education
Kuleli Military High School
Alma mater
Ottoman Military College , Imperial Military Academy
Nickname s
Kavaklı Fevzi, Müşir, Mareşal
Allegiance
Ottoman Empire (1896–1920), Ankara Government (1920–1923), Turkey (1920–1944)
Branch service
Ottoman Army , Army of the GNA , Turkish Army
Years of service
1896–1944
Rank
Mareşal
Commands
2nd Division , 5th Corps , 2nd Caucasian Corps , 2nd Army , 7th Army , 1st Army Troops Inspectorate , Chief of the General Staff
Battles wars
Albanian Uprising , Italo-Turkish War , Balkan Wars , First World War , Turkish War of Independence , Sheikh Said rebellion , Ararat rebellion , Dersim Rebellion

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Encyclopedic overview

Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak (12 January 1876 – 10 April 1950) was a Turkish field marshal (Mareşal) and politician. He served as the Chief of General Staff from 1918 and 1919 and later the Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire in 1920. He later joined the provisional Government of the Grand National Assembly and became the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense and later as the prime minister of Turkey from 1921 to 1922. He was the second chief of the General Staff of the provisional Ankara Government and the first chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Turkey.

Graduating from the War College as a Staff captain and assigned to the 4th Department of the General Staff, Mustafa Fevzi participated in numerous battles during the prolonged downfall of the Ottoman Empire, such as the First Balkan War and the Battle of Monastir. He was engaged as the commander of the V Corps throughout the defence of Gallipoli, during which his younger brother was killed in the Battle of Chunuk Bair. He became a Pasha and the chief of General Staff of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War and was appointed as the commander of the First Army Troops Inspectorate in 1919 by Grand Vizier Ahmet Tevfik Pasha. After briefly serving as war minister in 1920, Fevzi left to join the dissident Grand National Assembly in Ankara as a Member of Parliament for Kozan.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fevzi Çakmak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.