Nuri Conker

Mehmet Nuri Conker (September 20, 1882 – January 11, 1937) was a Turkish politician and an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army.

Nuri Conker (left) and Atatürk in 1931
Nuri Conker[1]
Born1882 (1882)
Salonica, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died11 January 1937(1937-01-11) (aged 54–55)
Ankara, Turkey
Buried
Ankara Şehitliği
State Cemetery
Allegiance Ottoman Empire (1902–20)
 Turkey (1920–27)
Years of serviceOttoman Empire: 1902–20
Turkey: June, 1920–27
RankBrigadier
Commands heldChief of Staff of the 1st Division, 24th Regiment, Military attaché to The Hague
General Director of the Press and Intelligence, Ankara Command, 41st Division (Governor of Adana Vilayet)
Battles/warsItalo-Turkish War
Balkan Wars
First World War
War of Independence
Other workMember of the GNAT (Kütahya)
Member of the GNAT (Gaziantep)
Member of the administrative board of the Türkiye İş Bankası

Nuri Conker was the oldest friend of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk).[2] His sister Dürriye Hanım married Salih Bozok. According to Philip Hendrick Stoddard, he was a brother-in-law of Süleyman Askerî Bey.[3]

Works
  • Conker, Mehmed Nuri, Zâbit ve Kumandan, İş Bankası Yayınları, Ankara, 1959. (He wrote this book in 1930, Mustafa Kemal's Zâbit ve Kumandan ile Hasbihal was the answer to Nuri's work.)
gollark: I developed potatOS without any testing before release for YEARS.
gollark: Pretty apiological.
gollark: bees.
gollark: …
gollark: I mean, some birds have tool use, primates have complex social hierarchies too, and tons of animals have mirror test self awareness.

See also

Sources
  1. T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 174. (in Turkish)
  2. Erik Jan Zürcher, The Unionist Factor: The Role of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926, BRILL, 1984, ISBN 978-90-04-07262-6, p. 48.
  3. The Ottoman Government and the Arabs, 1911 to 1918: A Preliminary Study of the Teskilât-ı Mahsusa, Princeton University, 1963, p. 175.

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