Süleyman Şefik Pasha (, ) was the commander of the Kuvâ-yi İnzibâtiye, an army established on 18 April 1920 by the

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of the

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in order to fight against the

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in the aftermath of

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during the

Turkish War of Independence , 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 ...

Biography

He was born in 1860 in

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to Ali Kemal Pasha, who served as governor of

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(the Balkans),

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(Libya),

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, and

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. His family was long known as the ''Söylemezoğulları'' (descendants of a man nicknamed Söylemez, "won't tell"). The Kuvâ-i İnzibâtiyye was supported by the British so as to enforce British policy in

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and enforce the partitioning and stabilize the remnants of the defeated

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. However, he only held the post for 12 days, after which he resigned due to difficulties from working with Anzavur Ahmed Pasha, a local military commander. He was the grandfather of Turkish musician Şehrazat and the father of Princess Perizat Osmanoğlu and Siham Kemali Söylemezoğlu, the first mining magnate in

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. After the

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of 1934, his family adopted their family name as their official surname, Söylemezoğlu. He died in 1946 in

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References

Pashas Ottoman Army personnel 1860 births 1946 deaths People of the Turkish War of Independence {{Turkey-mil-bio-stub