Ali Fuat Cebesoy
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| Nickname(s) | Salacaklı Ali Fuat |
| Born | September 1882 Üsküdar, Constantinople (Istanbul), Wilayah of İstanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | January 10, 1968 (aged 85) Nişantaşı, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Buried at | Geyve Alifuatpaşa Camii |
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 Ottoman Empire Turkey
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| Years of service | Ottoman: 1902–1919 Turkey: September 1919 – December 5, 1927 |
| Rank | Birinci Ferik |
| Commands held | 25th Division, 14th Division, 5th Division, 20th Corps, Kuva-yi Milliye of Western Anatolia, 2nd Army |
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Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars First World War War of Independence |
| Other work | Member of the GNAT (Ankara) Member of the GNAT (Konya) Member of the GNAT (Eskişehir) Member of the GNAT (Istanbul) |
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Ali Fuat Cebesoy (September 1882, Constantinople (Istanbul) – January 10, 1968, Istanbul) was a Turkish officer, politician and statesman.
Ali Fuat was born in September 1882 to father Ismail Fazil Pasha and mother Zekiye Hanım. Ali Fuat was the grandson (on his mother's side) of Müşir Mehmet Ali Pasha (Ludwig Karl Friedrich Detroit) who was the commander of the Danube Army (Tuna Şark Ordusu) during the Russo-Turkish war, participated in the Congress of Berlin as one of three representatives of the Ottoman Empire and was killed on September 7, 1878 in Đakovica (Kosovo) by Albanian insurgents who were dissatisfied with the results of the Berlin Congress.
Ali Fuat attended the War School in 1902, and graduated from the Ottoman War College in 1905 as a Staff Captain (Erkân-ı Harp Yüzbaşısı).
Ali Fuat was Circassian on his fathers side.
He was assigned to the 3rd Rifle Battalion (Üçüncü Nişancı Taburu), the 28th Cavalry Regiment (Yirmi Sekizinci Süvari Alayı) based in Beirut under the command of Fifth Army based in Damascus, and later to 15th Artillery Regiment (On Beşinci Topçu Alayı) based in Thessalonica under the command of Third Army as an intern. He joined the Committee of Union and Progress (membership number was 191). On June 28, he was assigned to the staff officer of the Third Army. And then he was promoted to the rank of Senior Captain and appointed to the area commander of Karaferye (present day: Veria). On January 9, 1909, he was appointed to the military attaché in Rome, Italy. On October 1, 1911, he was appointed to the chief of the 1st department (chief of operations) of the Western Army. On February 20, he was temporarily appointed to the chief of staff of the I Corps, VII Corps. And then he was appointed to the commander of a detachment that was formed to liberate İpek (present day: Peć) and Yakova (present day: Đakovica) from insurgents.
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