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Fevzi Çakmak

Mareşal
Fevzi Çakmak
Fezdi Cakmak and Ataturk.jpg
With Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Republic Day, 23 October 1937)
Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
24 January 1921 – 12 July 1922
Preceded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Succeeded by Rauf Orbay
1st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
3 May 1920 – 24 January 1921
Prime Minister Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Mümtaz Ökmen (1946)
2nd Chief of General Staff
In office
5 August 1921 – 12 January 1944
President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
İsmet İnönü
Preceded by İsmet İnönü
Succeeded by Kâzım Orbay
1st Minister of National Defence
In office
3 May 1920 – 5 August 1921
Prime Minister Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Himself
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Refet Bele
Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire
In office
3 February 1920 – 2 April 1920
Prime Minister Ali Rıza Pasha
Salih Hulusi Pasha
5th Chief of General Staff of the Ottoman Empire
In office
24 December 1918 – 14 May 1919
Prime Minister Ahmet Tevfik Pasha
Damat Ferid Pasha
Preceded by Djevad Pasha
Succeeded by Djevad Pasha
Personal details
Born (1876-01-12)12 January 1876
Cihangir, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died 10 April 1950(1950-04-10) (aged 74)
Teşvikiye, Istanbul, Turkey
Political party Republican People's Party (CHP) (Turkish Republic)
Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (Ottoman Empire)
Signature
Military service
Nickname(s) Kavaklı Fevzi,
Müşir, Mareşal
Allegiance  Ottoman Empire (1896–1920)
 Turkey (1920–1944)
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
War of Independence
Sheikh Said rebellion
Ararat rebellion
Dersim Rebellion

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 Defence 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.


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