Asım Gündüz

Âsım Gündüz 1316-P. 2[1]
Born	1 December 1880 Kütahya, Ottoman Empire
Died	14 January 1970 (aged 89) Istanbul, Turkey
Buried	Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire  Turkey
Years of service	Ottoman: 1901–1920 Turkey: August 3, 1921 – August 3, 1945
Rank	Orgeneral
Commands	Chief of Staff of the III Corps, Chief of Staff of the Sinai Front, Vice Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army, 48th Division, teacher of tactics in the Staff College, teacher of princes, 2nd division of the General Staff Chief of Staff of the Western Front, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, VIII Corps, IX Corps, V Corps, member of the Military Supreme Council
Battles / wars	Balkan Wars First World War Turkish War of Independence
Other work	Member of the GNAT (Kütahya)

Âsım Gündüz Pasha during his time in the Ottoman Army

Âsım Gündüz in Antakya, Hatay Province

Âsım Gündüz (1 December 1880 – 14 January 1970) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.

During the Second World War, he was the assistant of Chief of the General Staff Fevzi Çakmak.^[2]

See also

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

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. 124. (in Turkish)
2. John M. VanderLippe, The politics of Turkish democracy: İsmet İnönü and the formation of the multi-party system, 1938-1950, SUNY Press, 2005 ISBN 0-7914-6435-0.

External links

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