Salih Omurtak
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
- Ottoman: 20 September 1907–1920
- Turkey: 1 January 1920 – 6 July 1950
- Italo-Turkish War
- First World War
- Turkish War of Independence
- Genç Rebellion
- Ağrı Rebellion
Salih Omurtak (1889–23 June 1954) was a Turkish general and the fourth Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.
Biography
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He was born 1889 in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Greece). He graduated from the Military College in 1907 with the rank of a lieutenant. After finishing the Staff College in 1910, he became a staff officer and served at several headquarters in the Ottoman Army.
Deployed to Ankara on 22 January 1920,[citation needed] he joined the Turkish revolutionaries and commanded various troops during and after the Turkish War of Independence, including the 61st Division. He was promoted to the rank of the Mirliva in 1926, and in 1930, he became a Ferik. From 1940 on, Omurtak held the commander-in-chief post of the First Army in the rank of the Orgeneral (four-star general).
He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces on 1 August 1946 following the resignation of Kazım Orbay, and served at this position until 8 June 1949. His following duty was the membership in the Military High Advisory Board, which he held until his retirement on 6 July 1950.
Salih Omurtak died on 23 June 1954 in Ankara. His body was moved later to a permanent burial place in the Turkish State Cemetery.
See also
References
- ^ T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 231. (in Turkish)
External links
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- Salih OMURTAK in the official website of the Turkish General Staff (in Turkish)
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Preceded by | Commander of the First Army 17 Jun 1946 – 29 July 1946 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Chief of the General Staff of Turkey 1 August 1946 – 8 June 1949 | Succeeded by |
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- İsmet İnönü
- Fevzi Çakmak
- Kâzım Orbay
- Salih Omurtak
- Nafiz Gürman
- Nuri Yamut
- Nurettin Baransel
- Hakkı Tunaboylu
- Feyzi Mengüç
- Rüştü Erdelhun
- Ragıp Gümüşpala
- Cevdet Sunay
- Cemal Tural
- Memduh Tağmaç
- Faruk Gürler
- Semih Sancar
- Kenan Evren
- Nurettin Ersin
- Necdet Üruğ
- Necip Torumtay
- Doğan Güreş
- İsmail Hakkı Karadayı
- Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu
- Hilmi Özkök
- Yaşar Büyükanıt
- İlker Başbuğ
- Işık Koşaner
- Necdet Özel
- Hulusi Akar
- Yaşar Güler
- Musa Avsever*
- Metin Gürak
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- * Acting
- Italics indicates Acting Chief during the 2016 Turkish coup attempt