Ömer Küyük (1900 – 12 January 2006) was one of the last

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veterans of 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 ...

(1919–1923). Called , he fought in the Independence War as a

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private Private or privates may refer to: Music * "In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation'' * Private (band), a Denmark-based band * "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorded ...

. He lived in the small town of Iskilip in

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, and died on January 12, 2006, at the age of 106. His memories from the War of Independence and his daily life along with those of two other veterans,

Veysel Turan Veysel Turan (1901 - 25 March 2007) was one of the last Turkish veterans of the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923). Military years He joined the newly-established army of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in Ankara. In the early period of the Turkish Wa ...

and

Yakup Satar Yakup Satar (11 March 1898 – 2 April 2008) was a Turkish soldier who is believed to have been the last Ottoman veteran of the First World War. He died at age 110. Born in Crimea, Satar joined the army of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. On 2 ...

, are depicted in the documentary film ''

Son Buluşma ''Son Buluşma'' () is a Turkish documentary film produced in 2007 and directed by Nesli Çölgeçen. The film depicts the memoires and the daily life of the three last veterans of the Turkish War of Independence, Ömer Küyük, Veysel Turan and ...

'' (2007) () by Nesli Çölgeçen.Beyazperde

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1900 births 2006 deaths People from İskilip Turkish military personnel of the Turkish War of Independence Members of Kuva-yi Milliye Turkish men centenarians {{Turkey-mil-bio-stub