Mustafa Yamulki

Mustafa Yamulki (25 January 1866 – 25 May 1936), also known as "Nemrud" Mustafa Pasha, was a Kurdish military officer,[1] chairman of the Ottoman military court, minister for education in the Kingdom of Kurdistan[1] and a journalist. Mustafa was born in the city of Sulaimaniyah which was then in the Mosul Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

Mustafa Yamulki
Mustafa Yamulki
Nickname(s)Nimrod Mustafa Pasha
Born(1866-01-25)January 25, 1866
Sulaimaniyah, Mosul Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
DiedMay 25, 1936(1936-05-25) (aged 70)
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
AllegianceOttoman Empire, Kingdom of Kurdistan
RankMajor general
UnitThird Army
Battles/warsItalo-Turkish War, Balkan Wars

Early life

Mustafa was born into an old landowning family from Sulaimaniyah. Mustafa attended the Ottoman Military Academy at Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). He was from the powerful Bilbaz Kurdish tribe.

After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the World War I, he was appointed the head of the Turkish Court Martials on the 18 April 1920.[2] As chairman of the Court, which was also called the "war tribunal of Nemrut Mustafa",[3] he condemned Mustafa Kemal to death in absentia along with other of his associates.[4] The warrant was also signed by Ali Kemal, Damad Ferid and the Sultan. Mustafa also sentenced Ebubekir Hazim (Tepeyran) the minister of the interior for aiding the Turkish nationalists. He was dismissed from this office in June.[5]

Mustafa stated,

Our compatriots have committed untold crimes by resorting to every conceivable form of despotism, organized deportation and massacre, burned feeding mothers doused with petrol alive, raped women and girls…. They have subjected the Armenians to intolerable conditions, such as no other people had ever experienced throughout history.[6]

Later, Mustafa was arrested and sentenced to 7 months in prison. However, he was pardoned by Sultan Mehmed VI in February 1921.[4] In June 1921 he left Turkey for Syria and went on to live in Iraq.[4]

His brother-in-law Izzet Bey was the former governor of the Van Vilayet and minister of the Pious foundations under Tavfiq Pashas cabinet.

Mustafa's son was Abdul Aziz Yamulki, the chief plotter of coup d'état against the Bakir Sidqi government.[7]

Posts Held
  • vice-governor of Bursa[8]

References
  1. The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, Wadie Jwaideh
  2. Kévorkian, Raymond (2011-03-30). The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 797. ISBN 978-0-85771-930-0.
  3. Hans-Lukas Kieser, Dominik J. Schaller, Der Völkermord an den Armeniern und die Shoah (The Armenian genocide and the Shoah),
  4. Özoğlu, Hakan (2011). From Caliphate to Secular State: Power Struggle in the Early Turkish Republic. ABC-CLIO. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-313-37956-7.
  5. Touraj Atabaki, Erik Jan Zürcher, Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah,
  6. Derogy, Jacques (1990). Resistance and Revenge: Armenian Assassination of Turkish Leaders Responsible for the 1915 Massacres and Deportations. Routledge. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-351-49327-7.
  7. Eliezer Beeri, Army officers in Arab politics and society,
  8. Review of Armenian studies, Volume 5, Issues 13-16, ASAM Institute for Armenian Research, 2007
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