{"id":7101,"date":"2008-11-11T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T13:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/11\/turkeys-last-soldier-from-independence-war-dies-in-istanbul\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T10:42:04","slug":"turkeys-last-soldier-from-independence-war-dies-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/11\/turkeys-last-soldier-from-independence-war-dies-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s last soldier from Independence war dies in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara &#8211; The last surviving Turkish soldier from the Turkish War of Independence died in Istanbul on Tuesday aged 105, the Anadolu news agency reported. Born into the family of a naval officer in the Istanbul suburb of Uskudar in 1903, Mustafa Sekip Birgol attended a military high school before joining Turkish forces under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal fighting Allied partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after it was defeated in the First World War.<\/p>\n<p>Birgol fought as a second-lieutenant in the western Anatolian region of Afyon and took part in the recapturing of Smyrna (today&#8217;s Izmir) from Greek forces in September 1922.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Kemal&#8217;s victory in 1923 forced the Allies to abandon the partitioning of Anatolia and instead sign the Treaty of Lausanne which established the independent Turkish republic.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Kemal became the country&#8217;s first president, later taking the name Ataturk (father of the Turks) while Birgol was sent to the Black Sea city of Samsun.<\/p>\n<p>Birgol retired from the army in 1952 with the rank of colonel.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.earthtimes.org\/articles\/show\/241088,turkeys-last-soldier-from-independence-war-dies-in-istanbul.html\">Turkey&#8217;s last soldier from Independence war dies in Istanbul : Europe World<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara &#8211; The last surviving Turkish soldier from the Turkish War of Independence died in Istanbul on Tuesday aged 105, the Anadolu news agency reported. Born into the family of a naval officer in the Istanbul suburb of Uskudar in 1903, Mustafa Sekip Birgol attended a military high school before joining Turkish forces under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":107670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[232,102],"class_list":["post-7101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-history-english","tag-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}