Ahmet Esat Tomruk (1892 - 14 February 1966) was a Turkish

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better known as "İngiliz Kemal" emal, the Englishmanin Turkey. Tomruk was born in 1892 in

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. At the age of five, his father Mehmet Reşit Bey had died, and he continued living with his mother Sıdıka Hanım and his uncle Sezai Bey. Sezai Bey enrolled him in

Galatasaray High School Galatasaray High School (, ), established in Istanbul in 1481, is the oldest and Selective school, highly selective high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational institution after Istanbul University, which was establi ...

where he studied. In his school years he practiced Italian, Greek, English and French by exchanging letters with his foreign friends. During the

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he worked for the Special Organization of the Ottoman Empire. In the

Turkish Independence War , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

he was received by

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and was ordered to infiltrate an encampment of the

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. Tomruk was featured in the 1952 film "İngiliz Kemal Lawrense Karşı", and the 1968 "Ingiliz Kemal".

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Spies from Istanbul Galatasaray High School alumni 1892 births 1966 deaths People of the Turkish War of Independence 20th-century Ottoman military personnel {{Turkey-bio-stub