Mustafa Yamulki (25 January 1866 – 25 May 1936), also known as "Nemrud" Mustafa Pasha, was a
Kurdish military officer,
[The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, Wadie Jwaideh] chairman of the Ottoman military court, minister for education in the
Kingdom of Kurdistan and a journalist. Mustafa was born in the city of
Sulaimaniyah which was then in the
Mosul Vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire.
Early life
Mustafa was born into an old landowning family from Sulaimaniyah. Mustafa attended the
Ottoman Military Academy at Constantinople (present-day
Istanbul). He was from the powerful Bilbaz Kurdish tribe.
After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the World War I, he was appointed the head of the
Turkish Court Martials on the 18 April 1920. As chairman of the Court, which was also called the "war tribunal of Nemrut Mustafa", he condemned
Mustafa Kemal to death in absentia along with other of his associates.
The warrant was also signed by Ali Kemal,
Damad Ferid and the Sultan. Mustafa also sentenced Ebubekir Hazim (Tepeyran) the minister of the interior for aiding the Turkish nationalists. He was dismissed from this office in June.
Mustafa stated,
Later, Mustafa was arrested and sentenced to 7 months in prison. However, he was pardoned by Sultan
Mehmed VI
Mehmed VI Vahideddin ( ota, محمد سادس ''Meḥmed-i sâdis'' or ''Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn''; tr, VI. Mehmed or /; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba () among the Osmanoğlu family, was the 36th and last Sultan of the O ...
in February 1921.
In June 1921 he left
Turkey for
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
and went on to live in
Iraq.
His brother-in-law Izzet Bey was the former governor of the
Van Vilayet and minister of the Pious foundations under Tavfiq Pashas cabinet.
Mustafa's son was
Abdul Aziz Yamulki, the chief plotter of coup d'état against the
Bakir Sidqi government.
Posts Held
* vice-governor of Bursa
[''Review of Armenian studies, Volume 5, Issues 13-16'', ASAM Institute for Armenian Research, 2007]
References
External links
Yamulki
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1866 births
1936 deaths
People from Sulaymaniyah
Ottoman Military Academy alumni
Ottoman Army officers
Ottoman military personnel of the Balkan Wars
Ottoman military personnel of World War I
Kurdish people from the Ottoman Empire
Turkish Kurdish politicians
Pashas
Kingdom of Kurdistan
Witnesses of the Armenian genocide