Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez

Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez or Cafer Bey (1877 – January 3, 1958) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. He participated in the Defense of Gallipoli during World War I and after the war had ended, he joined the forces of Mustafa Kemal Pasha and fought in the Turkish War of Independence.

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Cafer Tayyar (Eğilmez)
Born	1877 (1877) Priştine (Pristina), Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern Kosovo)
Died	January 3, 1958(1958-01-03) (aged 80–81) Istanbul, Turkey
Buried	Karacaahmet Mezarlığı
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire Turkey
Years of service	Ottoman: 1901–1920 Turkey: 1920 – January 1928
Rank	Mirliva
Commands	1st Division, II Corps, I Corps, II Corps, I Corps Trakya Kuva-yi Milliye, VII Corps
Battles / wars	Balkan Wars First World War Turkish War of Independence
Other work	Member of the GNAT (Edirne) Governor of the Samsun Province

On 12 August 1923 he was appointed commander of the 7th Corps. He was promoted to Mirliva and made a Pasha on 24 Eylül 1923. He put down the Assyrian rebellion in south-eastern Anatolia.

See also

• List of high-ranking commanders of the Turkish War of Independence