Mustafa Muğlalı

Mustafa Muğlalı (1882, in Muğla – 11 December 1951, in Istanbul) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army. He served as an officer in World War I and the Turkish War of Independence.[2] As a General of the Third Army, he took part in the defense of Diyarbakır during the Sheikh Said Rebellion in 1925.[3]


Mustafa Muğlalı
1316-P. 21[1]
Mustafa Muğlalı
Born1882
Muğla, Ottoman Empire
Died11 December 1951(1951-12-11) (aged 68–69)
Istanbul, Turkey
Buried
State Cemetery
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
 Turkey
Years of serviceOttoman: 1901–1921
Turkey: 20 September 1921 – 26 July 1947
RankOrgeneral
Commands heldChief of Staff of Adana Area Command, Chief of Staff of the X Corps, 44th Division
18th Division, 13th Division, 10th Division, 3rd Division, 11th Division, 41st Division, Chief of Staff of the Third Army, Deputy Second Chief of the General Staff, 57th Division, I Corps, Istanbul Command, III Corps, X Corps, member of the Supreme Military Council, Third Army, member of the Military Supreme Council
Battles/warsBalkan Wars
First World War
War of Independence

33 Bullets Incident

In 1943 he ordered the execution of 33 alleged Kurdish smugglers, an event known as the 33 Bullets Incident. One of the villagers survived. In 1949 Muğlalı was charged for the murders and sentenced to death. But later a court decided to lower the verdict to 20 years of imprisonment. He died in a military hospital in Ankara awaiting for a final sentence of the Supreme Court.[4]

See also

Sources
  1. T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 134. (in Turkish)
  2. Üngör, Umut. "Young Turk social engineering : mass violence and the nation state in eastern Turkey, 1913- 1950" (PDF). University of Amsterdam. p. 233. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  3. Üngör, Umut. "Young Turk social engineering : mass violence and the nation state in eastern Turkey, 1913- 1950" (PDF). University of Amsterdam. p. 233. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  4. Aras, Ramazan (2013-11-12). The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: Political Violence, Fear and Pain. Routledge. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-134-64871-9.
Military offices
Preceded by
Kâzım Orbay		 Inspector of the Third Army
25 February 1943 – 19 September 1945		 Succeeded by
Sabit Noyan
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