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
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Born | 1882 Salonica, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 11 January 1937 54–55) Ankara, Turkey | (aged
Buried | Ankara Şehitliği State Cemetery |
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Years of service | Ottoman Empire: 1902–20 Turkey: June, 1920–27 |
Rank | Brigadier |
Commands held | Chief 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/wars | Italo-Turkish War Balkan Wars First World War War of Independence |
Other work | Member 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.)
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gollark: Can I have *two* raw potatoes?
gollark: So, half your stuff, temporarily?
gollark: So, Solar, why not give me *half* your stuff?
gollark: Pure Lua, which is helpful.
Sources
- 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)
- 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.
- 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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