Mehmet Nuri Yamut Pasha (1890,

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– 5 June 1961,

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) was a

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general, who became the 20th Commander of the

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on 5 June 1950. He was a career Artillery officer. In 1943 he was appointed to the 2nd Corps ''Command in Gallipoli''. During the 2nd Corps Command, he sold his house for the Turkish soldiers who were killed in the Battle of Gallipoli, and built a monumental grave. He served as Chief of General Staff between 1950-1954 for a four-year period. It is the first commander-in-chief of the

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Command since the transition from the

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to the modern-regular army. He then retired and entered the Parliament from the Justice Party.

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X. and XI. He is a deputy in Istanbul. After May 27 the then-Commander of Turkish Armed Forces

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was assaulted by putschist young officers while the hero of the War of Independence,

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and

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veteran

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and former Commander Mehmet Nuri Yamut were arrested and imprisoned. While he was a deputy, he was arrested after the May 27 coup d'etat. He then died during the Yassıada Judgments.

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, Turkish General Staff. {{DEFAULTSORT:Yamut, Nuri 1890 births People from Salonica vilayet Turkish Army generals Turkish Military Academy alumni Army War College (Turkey) alumni Commanders of the First Army of Turkey Commanders of the Second Army of Turkey Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces Chiefs of the Turkish General Staff 1961 deaths