Kazım Karabekir
| Musa Kâzım Karabekir 1318 (1902)-P. 1 |
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| Nickname(s) | Kâzım Zeyrek |
| Born | 23 July 1882 Kocamustafapaşa, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 26 January 1948 (aged 65) Ankara, Turkey |
| Buried at | Ankara Hava Şehitliği |
| Allegiance |
 Ottoman Empire (1902–1919) Turkey (1919–1924)
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| Years of service | 1902–1924 |
| Rank | Birinci Ferik |
| Commands held | 1st Expeditionary Force, 14th Division, 18th Corps, II Corps, I Caucasian Corps, XIV Corps, XV Corps, Eastern Front, 1st Army |
| Battles/wars |
Balkan Wars World War I Turkish War of Independence |
| Other work | Member of the TBMM (Edirne) Member of the TBMM (Istanbul) |
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Musa Kâzım Karabekir (23 July 1882 – 26 January 1948) was a Turkish general and politician. He was the commander of the Eastern Army in the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I and served as Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey before his death.
Karabekir was born in 1882 as the son of an Ottoman general, Mehmet Emin Pasha, in the Kocamustafapaşa quarter of the Kuleli neighborhood of Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. The Karabekir family traced its heritage back to the medieval Karamanid principality in central Anatolia.
Karabekir toured several places in the Ottoman Empire while his father served in the army. He returned to Istanbul in 1893 with his mother after his father’s death in Mecca. They settled in the Zeyrek quarter. Karabekir was put into Fatih military secondary school the next year. After finishing his education there, he attended the Kuleli Military High School, from which he graduated in 1899. He continued his education at the Ottoman Military College, which he finished on 6 December 1902 at the top of his class.
As a junior officer, after two months he was commissioned in January 1906 to the Third Army in the region around Bitola in Macedonia. There, he was involved in fights with Greek and Bulgarian komitadjis. For his successful service, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Captain in 1907. In the following years, he served in Constantinople and again in the Second Army in Edirne.
On 15 April 1911 Kâzım applied to change his family name from Zeyrek to Karabekir. Until that time, he was called Kâzım Zeyrek, after the place where he lived with his mother, a custom in the Ottoman Empire as family names were not used. From then on he adopted the name Karabekir, the name of his ancestors.
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