Colonel Ali Shafik Ozdemir.Post armistice Kurdistan operations

[Misirli]

Sources speak of post armistice Ottoman forays into northern Mosul velayet led by some Colonel Ali Shafik Ozdemir in 1922. Any idea about the subject?
https://goo.gl/5UQ5uw

[stevebecker]

Mate,

All I record on him is;

Ali Sefik Ozdemir Bey War of Independence leaders of Turkish national Front

other leaders I record are;

Ismail Ferahim Salvuz War of Independence National Front againt French later Col
Suleyman Fikri (Mutlu) Capt War of Independence National Front againt French in Cilicia
Veli Hasim (Çiftçi) Lt War of Independence National Front againt French

Sorry

S.B

[Misirli]

Mate,

All I record on him is;

Ali Sefik Ozdemir Bey War of Independence leaders of Turkish national Front

other leaders I record are;

Ismail Ferahim Salvuz War of Independence National Front againt French later Col
Suleyman Fikri (Mutlu) Capt War of Independence National Front againt French in Cilicia
Veli Hasim (Çiftçi) Lt War of Independence National Front againt French

Sorry

S.B

Thanks Stevebecker.You have been most helpful indeed by correcting the name of the officer in question.
Apparently he continued operations against the allies for a while on ex-ottoman territories.I was interested in him as it may shed a light on the structure of Teskilat Mahsusa.
I found plenty of articles,that were mostly in Turkish however. One of them was google translated to the following:


"His real name is Shafiq Ali Özdemir. Born in Cairo in Egypt is Islam during the Ottoman dominion theology and graduated from the University of al-Azhar Mosque, the Literature section. After receiving military training in Egypt Abbas, Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt's army has finally joined the court and was appointed commander of the guard. Later Organization Mahsusa contacted and instructed to organize its own resistance against the British in Cyprus and Palestine during WW1 by the Ottoman Government established the Circassian battalions.

Father of Ahmet Cevdet Bey, head of Kabardino tribe in the Caucasus Bursa Ottoman Empire after the Russian war with the Ottoman Empire Great Circassian ago during migration and then settled in Sivas Kangal County and later to Egypt, going 12 taken by the provincial governor's office tasks and here Haceh The Hanim married with three children (Shafiq Ali, Mustafa Cevdet and kind lady) was the owner. Ceder was Yemen Fatih Özdemir Pasha (died 1561 and the Caucasus Fatih Özdemir son Osman Pasha (1526-1584) is based.

Shafiq Ali Özdemir Bey Adige, English, French, and speaks Arabic and Kurdish.

Their marriage has been a total of 3 boys.

while he was in Syria, he met with Mustafa Kemal and his by the Turks against the British and the task of establishing an organization consisting of Arab resistance. After directing the resistance of the year 1920 of which came to Antep in order to inform Ataturk in June, and after having observer until August 8, assigned to General Front Command on the will of the people on August 8 and was given his militia colonel title. 197 days in Gaziantep has directed his defense, made a great contribution in making his Veteran job title and history to break through the French military line Syria to take him to the end of the defense militia force and the city of Gaziantep on the next day 9 February 1921. surrendered to the French because of hunger and cephanesizlik. Özdemir Bey orders of Ataturk in April 1921 after Syria joined Hatay Defense and Turkmen in this region, the Kurds, the Arab tribe of refugees Algerian Muslim, or even Alsatian Lorenl bring together Russian and German refugee has fought against the French.
Subsequently the Parliament with the French deal tasked signed the Iraq Mosul and military operations against the British in rawandiz region and since the spring of 1922 Elcezire launched the Front campaign with his own platoon and Kurdish tribes (under Barzan and Control Zebar Sheikh Mahmud's) participation and succeeded in rawandiz Derbent and gained the victory against the British. Then through the territory of Iran it is involved in some military operations here.

After the end of the War of Independence has brought the population in Egypt to Gaziantep, he settled here, until 1939 Contracting, made Inspectorate services Monopoly Administration, farming activities in Nizip (Raisins and Peanuts) has continued, the National Assembly 6.Dönem Siirt deputy, 7. period Gaziantep served as Deputy and the transportation of Gaziantep railway train line contributed greatly Grain between the years olmuştur.1946-1950 made the Administrative Council Presidency and he died in May of 1951 and was buried with military honors in Gaziantep cemetery upon his will."

Source: http://ozdemirbeyilkokulu.meb.k12.tr/ic ... 30255.html

[Tosun Saral]

Lt. Col. Ali Şefik Bey ( or well known as Özdemir Bey), the hero of Antep and Revandiz.

Lt. Col. Ali Şefik was borned in 1885 at Cairo. He was a son of a Circassian emigrant from Adige Tribe. He edutated in Cairo University. As WW1 broke he joined to Ottoman Turkish Army as reserve officer. After the war he organized the fights againts the French in Syria. As the British and French occupied the Turkish main land he come to Anatolia and joined the National Forces of Mustafa Kemal Pasha. He was made the commander of National Forces fighting againts the French at Antep on August 8th.
He was ordered by Mustafa Kemal Pasha to organize a resistance at British occupied Musul in Irak.
After the liberation he was made MP from Gaziantep. Died in Ankara in 1934.

My late father Maj. Gen. Ahmet Hulki Saral writes in his book "Türk İstiklal Harbi, Cilt IV, Güney Cephesi, (Turkish War of Liberation, Vol.IV, South Front)Ankara, 1966 between the pages 265-278.
In short:
"The English planes were bombing the unarmed inhabitants of the villages and towns pitiless. Their objective was to pressurize the people and to provake the upheavel againts Turks. Turkish troops in Köysancak and Ranya had to retead." For that reason Mustafa Kemal Pasha ordered an expetition to Revandiz in Iraq under the command of Lt. Col.Ozdemir Bey on Feb.1st 1922.
-Lt. Col. Ozdemir Bey and his staff departed for the front on March 9th 1922.
-On April 22nd Ozdemir Bey contacted with the Elcezire Front command in Diyarbakir and after preparations he moved to Revaniz from Diyarbakir on May 15th.
-On June 22nd they reached to Revandiz.
- They fought againts Balik tribe and took the chief prisoner on July 2nd. Ozdemir Bey forgave the Chief in order to fight againts British.
-British airplanes bombed Revandiz on July 10th
-The Revandiz Expeditionary force was given under the command of East Front on August 6th
- Sheik Mahmut refuges to Turkish national territory onAug 11st.
- Battle of Derbent on August 31st.
-Between September 1922 and April 1923 the expedionary Force gained sympaty among the tribes and gained many supporters. But they could't get reinforcement and material from Mustafa Kemal. Even an airplane company which should given to support Ozdemir bey was cancelled and send to Westtern front againts Greeks.
-An unsuccesfull British attacked towards Seytan Valleys (The devils valley) on April 8th 1923. On the same day British attacked towards Bahcelik with Armenian, Nasturian and Indian Units.
- Ozdemir Bey's forces unbushes this unit on April 11/12th
- The british brokes the Turkish defences and moves to Serderya Pass on April 19th 1923
-Ozdemir bey and his units withdrawals to Iran on April 21st 1923.
-On April 29th Ozdemir Bey enters again into Turkish soil near Ozalp.

[Tosun Saral]

Vatan Nasil Kurtarildi? (How Fatherland Was saved?)
I wrote this book together with my father Major General Ahmet Hulki Saral in 1970. This book tells about the Turkish Milis of Adana (Clicia), Antep Urfa, Tourus Mountains and Marash who resisted the invading British, French and their puppets Armenians after the Armistrace of Mundros in Oct. 30th 1918 which ended the Turkish WW1.

[Tosun Saral]

2nd. Lt Süleyman Fikri (Mutlu) from the village of Mut of the Mersin Province. After the French occupied pure Turkish lands called Cilicia he organized a resitance againts them. During the battle of Küçük Ziyaret Tepe he lost one eye.

source : Tosun Saral Vatan Nasıl Kurtarıldı. (How Fatherland was saved)

[Tosun Saral]

Reserve 2nd Lt. Veli Heşim Efendi (Çiftçi) One of the commander of Mişis at Adana(Cilicia).
Source: Tosun Saral

[Tosun Saral]

Lt.Col İsmail Ferahim Bey (Col. Salvuz) Commander of milis of Tarsus. He took Tarsus over the French with heavy fights.

[Tosun Saral]

We discussed Özdemir Operations at axix
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... t=Revandiz

[Misirli]

We discussed Özdemir Operations at axix
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... t=Revandiz

Teşekkürler, as usual well informed and helpful.
Those details were alluded to vageuly in a writing from the other side: Two years in Kurdistan : experiences of a political officer, 1918-1920
by Hay, William Rupert, 1893- https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinkurdis00hayw