Fuat Bulca Explained

Fuat Bulca
1317-P. 80[1]
Birth Place:Selanik, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:Istanbul, Turkey
Placeofburial:Erenköy Sahrâ-yı Cedid Mezarlığı
State Cemetery
Allegiance:
Turkey
Serviceyears:Ottoman Empire: 1902-1918
Turkey: December 8, 1921-July 4, 1927
Rank:Brigadier
Commands:23rd Regiment
Infantry Brigade of the 1st Division, 1st Division (deputy), 20th Division, 11th Division, Ankara Command
Battles:Italo-Turkish War
Balkan Wars
First World War
War of Independence
Laterwork:Member of the GNAT (Rize)
Member of the GNAT (Çoruh)
Chairman of the Turkish Aeronautical Association

Ahmet Fuat Bulca (1881 – September 14, 1962) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army. He served as an Ottoman soldier and he fought in the Italo-Turkish War, the First Balkan War and the First World War. He then joined the forces of Mustafa Kemal in the Turkish War of Independence which occurred in the aftermath of the defeat of the Turkish Empire. He was also a politician of the Turkish Republic. He was one of the closest friends of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, as well as his classmate at the Monastir Military High School.

He died in a car accident in Istanbul on September 14, 1962.

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Notes and References

  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. 159.