Nuri Killigil

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Not to be confused with
Nuri Pasha as-Said
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Nuri Killigil
Sütlüce, Istanbul, Turkey
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
Years of service1911–1919
RankLieutenant general
Commands heldAfrica Groups Command, Islamic Army of the Caucasus
Battles/warsItalo-Turkish War

First World War

Caucasus Campaign

Azerbaijan campaign

Nuri Killigil, also known as Nuri Pasha (1889–1949) was an Ottoman general in the Ottoman Army. He was the half-brother of Ottoman Minister of War, Enver Pasha.

Military career

Libya

Main article:
North African Campaign (World War I)

Infantry Machine-Gun

Lieutenant Colonel Nuri Bey was appointed its first commander and his chief of Staff was Staff Major Abdurrahman Nafiz Bey (Gürman).[1]

Caucasus

Main article:
Caucasus Campaign
Main article: Islamic Army of the Caucasus

Nuri Bey's elder brother

Dashnaktsutyun and Islamic Army of the Caucasus. The Islamic Army of the Caucasus led by Nuri Pasha took control of the whole Azerbaijan and the capital Baku on 15 September 1918. During this time, Nuri presided over the massacre of 30,000 Armenian civilians in the city of Baku.[3][4]

At the end of the war, Nuri was arrested by British troops and held in detention in

Batum, awaiting trial for wartime crimes. In August 1919, his supporters ambushed guards escorting him and helped him escape to Erzurum.[5]

Later life

In 1938, Killigil bought a coal mining plant in Turkey. He began to organize the production of guns, bullets, gas masks, and other war equipment. After some time, he announced the end of the production of weapons, but still secretly continued production.

Killigil established contact with

Azerbaijan. The attempts were unsuccessful.[7]

Death

He was killed on 2 March 1949 by an explosion in his factory in Istanbul[8] that also killed 28 other people. He was buried without a proper funeral ceremony at the time, as it was viewed as contrary to religious beliefs for dismembered corpses. A formal funeral service, attended by the Azerbaijani politician Ganira Pashayeva and representatives from the Municipality of Istanbul, was only held in 2016.[9]

Sources

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  1. ^ a b Hamit Pehlivanlı, "Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa Kuzey Afrika'da (1914–1918)", Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi, Sayı 47, Cilt: XVI, Temmuz 2000. (in Turkish)
  2. ^ Ajun Kurter, Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Tarihi, Cilt: IV, 3rd edition, Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı, 2009, p. 92.
  3. ISBN 0-313-31516-7
    , p. 189.
  4. ^ "Genocide Museum | The Armenian Genocide Museum-institute". www.genocide-museum.am. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  5. ISBN 0-520-04186-0
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  6. ^ a b "Turkey in the First World War — Nuri Paşa (Killigil)". turkeyswar.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
  7. ^ Gilyazov, I. "Тюркизм: становление и развитие (характеристика основных этапов): Учебное пособие для студентов-тюркологов". Kazan: Kazan State. University Press, 2002. p. 70.
  8. ISBN 978-0-85745-251-1
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  9. ^ "Funeral service held after 67 years for Turkish war hero Nuri Pasha". Daily Sabah. 2016-09-29. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
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