Hasan Tahsin was the code name of Osman Nevres (1888 – 15 May 1919), a
Turkish
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nationalist
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, patriot, and journalist of
Dönmeh
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descent.
Hailed as a
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war hero, his name has been given by the
Turkish Armed Forces
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to the Information Center of the Turkish General Staff (Genelkurmay İletişim Başkanlığı'nın Hasan Tahsin Bilgi Merkezi). A member of the
Ottoman Special Organization, he unsuccessfully tried to assassinate
Noel and
Charles Roden Buxton
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in Romania during
World War I
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. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment for the attempt but released when German forces overran Romania.
He opened fire on the
Greek
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soldiers who
landed at Smyrna (present day
İzmir
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) on 15 May 1919 in the opening act of the
Greek
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occupation of more than three years that extended over a large part of western
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, as well as of the
Greco-Turkish War. He was killed on the spot on 15 May 1919 after killing the Greek standard-bearer. At the time of his death he had been publishing and writing for the newspaper ''Hukuk-u Beşer''
(
Ottoman Turkish
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for ''Human Rights'').
References
Report of the Inter-Allied Commission of Inquiry (May-September 1919)by the Members of the Commission;
Adm. Bristol, the US Delegate - Gen. Hare, the British Delegate - Gen. Bunoust, the French Delegate - Gen. Dall'Olio, the Italian Delegate. The statements in defense of the Greek government presented by Col. Mazarakis.
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Turkish people of Jewish descent
1888 births
1919 deaths
Writers from Thessaloniki
Pan-Turkists
People of the Turkish War of Independence
20th-century journalists from the Ottoman Empire
Members of the Special Organization (Ottoman Empire)
Military personnel from Thessaloniki
Turkish Nationalist writers