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Kâzım Karabekir

Native name: Kazım Karabekir, Musa Kâzım Karabekir

Also known as: Kazım Karabekir, Musa Kâzım Karabekir, Kâzım Karabekir Paşa, Kazim Karabekir Pasha

Place of birth:

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Birth date:

1882-01-01 • Birth Sign: Capricorn

Citizenship:

Turkey, Ottoman Empire

Death date:

1948-01-26 (66 years old)

Short Bio:

Musa Kâzım Karabekir (also Kiazim in English; , ; 1882 – 26 January 1948) was a Turkish general and politician. He was the commander of the Eastern Army of the Ottoman Empire during the Turkish War of Independence, and fought a successful military campaign against the Armenian Democratic Republic. He was the founder and leader of the Progressive Republican Party, the Turkish Republic's first opposition party to Atatürk, though he and his party would be purged following the Sheikh Said revolt.

He was rehabilitated with İsmet İnönü's ascension to the presidency in 1938 and served as Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey before his death.

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