Kâzım Orbay
| M. Kâzım Orbay 1320 (1904)-Sah. Top. 1 |
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11 March 1887 Smyrna (İzmir), Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 3 June 1964 (aged 77) Istanbul, Turkey |
| Buried at | Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı Transferred to State Cemetery |
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| Rank | General |
| Commands held | 3rd Caucasian Division, Second Chief of the General Staff, 4th Corps, General Commander of Gendarmerie, Third Army, Member of the Supreme Military Council, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Chief of the General Staff, Member of the Supreme Military Council |
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| Other work | President of the Constituent Assembly, Senator |
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Mehmet Kâzım Orbay (11 March 1887 – 3 June 1964) was a Turkish general and senator. He served as the third Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.
Kâzım Orbay was born in Smyrna (present day: İzmir), Ottoman Empire in 1887. He graduated from Mühendishâne-i Berrî-i Hümâyûn (Imperial School of Military Engineering) joined the army in the rank of an artillery lieutenant in 1904. After finishing the Staff College in 1907, he became a staff officer. In 1908, he attended military courses in Germany and fought then in the Balkan Wars. He was appointed to chief adjutant of the Ministry of War in the Ottoman cabinet and served so to Enver Pasha during the World War I. During this time, he was deputed as the Ottoman representative to the Afghan government in the Niedermayer-Hentig Expedition in 1915, when he presented to Emir Habibullah Khan the Ottoman Sultan's declaration of Jihad, the Ottoman Empire's desire to avoid a fatricidal war between Islamic people, and her message to Afghanistan to join the Central Powers, break with the British Empire and declare war against British India.
After the occupation of Turkey by the Allies following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, he joined the independence movement in Anatolia. Participating actively in the Turkish War of Independence, he served in several commanding positions in the Eastern Front Army between 1920 and 1922. He fought in the Caucasus and took part in the Battle of Dumlupinar.
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