3 October 1963(1963-10-03) (aged 81–82) Istanbul, Turkey
Buried
Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı State Cemetery
Allegiance
Ottoman Empire Turkey
Years of service
Ottoman Empire: 1899–1919 Turkey: 13 July 1919 – 8 December 1926
Rank
Major general
Commands held
Division of the intelligence of the headquarters of the Fourth Army, 10th Division, 3rd Division, 11th Division, Inspector of the Rear Area of Jerusalem, 53rd Division, XXII Corps (deputy), XX Corps, Gendarmerie General Command, III Corps Minister of the Interior, Southern Part of the Western Front, Minister of Interior, Minister of National Defense, Representative of the TBMM government in Istanbul
Battles/wars
Italo Turkish war Balkan Wars First World War War of Independence
Other work
Member of the GNAT (Izmir) Member of the GNAT (Istanbul)
Refet Bele (1881[2] – 3 October 1963), also known as Refet Bey[3][4][5] or Refet Pasha was a Turkish military commander. He served in the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army, where he retired as a general.
^T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 91. (in Turkish)
^Smith, Elaine Diana (1959). "Turkey: Origins of the Kemalist Movement and the Government of the Grand National Assembly, 1919-1923".
^Sonyel, Salahi Ramadan (2008). Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) ve Kurtuluş Savaşı: yeni belgelerle, 1918-1923, Volume 1. Türk Tarih Kurumu. p. 296. ISBN 9789751620118. Rafet (Refet) Bey
^Great Britain. Foreign Office, Sir Ernest Llewellyn Woodward (1970). Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 528. Refet Pasha is the most powerful personality in Mustapha Kemal's government and has complete control over Mustapha Kemal himself.
^Sami, Böcüzade Süleyman (1983). Kuruluşundan bugüne kadar Isparta tarihi. Serenler Yayını. p. xxx. Rafet Bey (= General Rafet Bele).
RefetBele (1881 – 3 October 1963), also known as Refet Bey or Refet Pasha was a Turkish military commander. He served in the Ottoman Army and the Turkish...
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Constantinople and the Straits zones until the final treaty was signed. RefetBele was assigned to seize control of Eastern Thrace from the Allies. He was...
Interior of Turkey Cami Baykut Hakkı Behiç Bayiç Nazım Resmor RefetBele Ata Atalay RefetBele Fethi Okyar İsmail Safa Özler Fethi Okyar Ahmet Ferit Tek Recep...
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agreement was signed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Rauf Orbay, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, RefetBele and later Kâzım Karabekir in Erzurum. On American Mandate: On 1 August...
Ninth Army Inspectorate), Rauf Orbay (former Naval Minister), Miralay RefetBele (Commander of the III Corps stationed at Sivas) and Mirliva Ali Fuat Cebesoy...
v t e Ministers of National Defense of Turkey Fevzi Çakmak RefetBele Kâzım Özalp Fethi Okyar Recep Peker Abdülhalik Renda Zekai Apaydın Kâzım Özalp Ahmet...
v t e Ministers of National Defense of Turkey Fevzi Çakmak RefetBele Kâzım Özalp Fethi Okyar Recep Peker Abdülhalik Renda Zekai Apaydın Kâzım Özalp Ahmet...
v t e Ministers of National Defense of Turkey Fevzi Çakmak RefetBele Kâzım Özalp Fethi Okyar Recep Peker Abdülhalik Renda Zekai Apaydın Kâzım Özalp Ahmet...
by Ahmet Ferit Tek In office 10 October 1921 – 9 July 1922 Preceded by RefetBele Succeeded by İsmail Safa Minister of the Interior (Ottoman Empire) In...
Political party 1 Fevzi Çakmak 3 May 1920 5 August 1921 Independent 2 RefetBele 5 August 1921 10 January 1922 Independent 3 Kazım Özalp 10 January 1922...
painters Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey Loukas Barlos RefetBele, an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army Mehmet Cavit Bey...
command of the First Army was offered to Ali Fuat (Cebesoy), and then Refet (Bele). But neither man wanted to serve under İsmet (İnönü). On 29 June 1922...
Independent 4 RefetBele 16 September 1920 18 March 1921 Independent 5 Ata Atalay 21 April 1921 30 June 1921 Independent (4) RefetBele 30 June 1921 10...
53rd Division Eighth Army (Ferik Cevat Çobanlı) XXII Corps (Miralay RefetBele) 7th Division, 20th Division Left Wing Corps (Oberst Gustav von Oppen)...
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