Turkish officers with iron crosses

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An identified Turkish officer with Fieldmarshall Ahmet İzzet Paşa and Mustafa Kemal Pasha (commander of 7th Army) at Halep in 1917

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Captain of Gendarmary Yusuf Ziya Bey from Kilis or well known as Aslan Bey borned in 1884 in Kilis. His farher was captain of the Gendarmey Ali Efendi. He graduated from military scholl as a NCO. He fought at Libya/Trablusgarb againts Italians in 1911. In WW1 he served as a NCO of Gendarmery. As the armistrace was signed he was in Kilis. He there resisted a movement againtsBritish and French. For that reason was nicknamed as Aslan Bey (the Lion) During the Republican time he promed to the rank of captain. Died in Nov. 6th 1942.

Yüzbaşı Aslan Bey, 1884 yılında Kilis'te doğdu. Babası Jandarma Yüzbaşı Ali Bey'dir. Asıl adı Yusuf Ziya olup, Antep ve Kilis cephelerinde gösterdiği kahramanlıkları sebebiyle kendisine Aslan Bey denilmiştir.
1911 yılında Trablusgarp'da İtalyanlara karşı Derne Cephesinde, I. Dünya Savaşında Jandarma çavuşu olarak Kilis ve Antep cephelerinde , büyük başarırları görülmüştür. 17 Şubat 1921'de Antep şehrindeki taarruza katılan Aslan Bey'e başarılarından dolayı İstiklal Madalyası verilmiş ve yüzbaşı olmuştur. 6 Kasım 1942 yılında vefat etmiştir.

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Officers of 15th Turkish AC at Galizi front

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Staff officers of 15th AC at Galizia front with their commander Yakup Şevki (General of the Army Subaşı) Paşa

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Captain Hamdi Banaz (Major General Banaz)
Army serial Number: Lv. (Commissonary officer) 1333(1917)-87
Brigadier: 150, Major General: 1953
retired: 14.7.1957
Source: His niece Sema Erciyaş Kantürk's private collection

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Cav. Col. Ekrem Recep Bey (Batra)
source: with the permission of his grand son Mr. Can Emed from İstanbul.
http://www.facebook.com/?tid=1395482706 ... 3311954184

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Medals of Ekrem Recep Bey

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Miralay Hans Guhr Bey 1nci Tümen Komutanı
Col. Hans Guhr Bey commander of 1st Turkish Division at Syria Palestine Front. He got his IK while serving in Turkish Army.

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Ekrem Recep Bey with other Turkish officers and his German Kamaraden, Waffen Brüdern at Galizia Front.

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Ekrem Recep Bey with Turkish and German officers at Galizia Front
with permision of his grand son Can Emed.

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Yüzbaşı Buddecke, Hauptmann/Captain Buddecke Turkish Air Force

I add Yüzbaşı Buddecke Efendi to my list because he got his IK under Turkish service wearing honourable Turkish uniform.

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A Turkish Artillery Lt.
from my collection

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An IK Turk from 27th IR (standing on the right) with his commander Lt. Col. Şefik Bey ( Col. Aker) (standing on the left)
27 nci alay'dan Demir Haçlı Türk subayı Alay Komutanı Yarbay Şefik Bey(solda ayakta) ve diğer silah arkadaşları ile (sağda ayakta)

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A Turkish officer called İsmail Bey wrote the following letter on an iron cross imaged mailing paper which was given as present to Turkish officers by germans to his brother Vasıf Bey and his cousen Affan from the front Kemikliburun (Kemikli point) near Anafartalar (Suvla) 0n August 3/4 1915.

Kaynak:
http://wowturkey.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... &start=250

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Abdul Aziz Yamulki
(b.21/12/1890, d.25/7/1981) was the son Kurd Mustafa Pasha Yamulki and an Ottoman military officer. After the fall of the Ottoman empire he became a member of the new Royal Iraqi military. Aziz was born in Sulaymaniah.

The Yamulkies were a prominent Kurdish family of Sulaymaniah, Aziz was born into a privileged life, he moved to Constantinople and lived in his father's palace and attended the Ottoman military academy. He entered the Ottoman military but soon fled with his father when the Kemalists took power. After the creation of the Iraqi state and given his family and his education he joined the Iraqi military.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Aziz_Yamulki