Ahmet Nurmambet was a Dobrujan Crimean Tatar who served in the Romanian Army. He was the father of the well-known traditional folk singer

Kadriye Nurmambet Kadriye Nurmambet (also spelled in Crimean Tatar as: Qadriye Nurmambet, قَادْرِیَ نُرْمٰومْبَتً, Ҡадрие Нурмамбет and in Romanian as: Cadrie Nurmambet; 21 August 1933 – 31 January 2023) was a Romanian Crim ...

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Ahmet was born in 1893. His uncle, Colonel

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put him on a path to a military career and in 1900 he was already a student at the Military secondary school in

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. Upon his graduation in 1909 he entered military service ranked as

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. He served through World War I in mounted unit 12th Roşiori Regiment fighting on the front in the battles of Oituz and Mărășești. After the war, with the reorganization of the Romanian Land Forces in the 1920s, his regiment joined the 40th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Infantry Division, which was initially stationed in

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, but later was transferred to Bazargic (now

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, Bulgaria). In Bazargic he met Pakize from Kavarna. They married in 1931 and they had two children:

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and Ğengiz. When, at the beginning of World War II in 1940, Romania

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Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria, he was appointed commander of a garrison in Medgidia where he moved with his family. Ahmet continually distinguished himself during his military career and he was awarded military orders and medals. He died in 1953.

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