Şerif Yaçağaz

Şerif Yaçağaz
1314-c-P. 94[1]
Born1876
Pazardzhik, Ottoman Empire
Died5 October 1938(1938-10-05) (aged 61–62)
Buried
State Cemetery
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
 Turkey
Years of serviceOttoman Empire: 1899-1920
Turkey: 1920-July 17, 1923
RankBrigadier
Commands161st Regiment, Istanbul Central Command (vice)
Yozgat Area Command, Mutasarrif of Yozgat, 41st Division, 2nd Division, Istanbul Central Command
Battles / warsBalkan Wars
First World War
Turkish War of Independence

Şerif Yaçağaz (1876 – 5 October 1938) was a Turkish career officer, civil servant and antisemitic politician, who served as an officer in the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army. His antisemitic and anti-communist lectures drew the attention of Turkish nationalist Nihâl Atsız.

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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. 98. (in Turkish)