Mehmet Nâzım Bey 1323-P. 3[1] | |
Birth Date: | 1886 |
Death Date: | 15 July |
Birth Place: | Kayseri, Ankara Eyalet, Ottoman Empire |
Death Place: | Yumruçal, Turkey |
Placeofburial: | Ankara Şehitliği State Cemetery |
Rank: | Miralay |
Commands: | Chief of Staff of the 16th Division, Chief of Staff of the 19th Division, Delegation to the Army Group Mackensen, Rumelia Detachment, 7th Cavalry Regiment Provisional Division, 4th Division |
Mehmet Nâzım Bey (1886; Kayseri - July 15, 1921; Yumruçal) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army. He is credited for his defense of the Gallipoli peninsula during the Gallipoli campaign of World War I.
He was killed in action by the Greek Army on July 15, 1921 during the Battle of Yumruçal in the Turkish War of Independence (see Battle of Afyonkarahisar–Eskişehir).