Hasan Tahsin

For the Ottoman general, see Hasan Tahsin Pasha. For the Albanian theologian and philosopher, see Hasan Tahsini. For the Turkish Cypriot divan poet and Islamic jurist, see Hasan Tahsin (poet).

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Osman Nevres. There is no family name.

Hasan Tahsin
Osman Nevres
Born	Osman Nevres 1888 Salonica, Ottoman Empire
Died	15 May 1919 İzmir, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Ottoman
Occupation(s)	Journalist, member of the Ottoman Special Organization
Organization	Special Organization
Known for	Opening of fire on the Greek soldiers that landed at Smyrna
Political party	Union and Progress Party

Hasan Tahsin was the code name of Osman Nevres (1888 – 15 May 1919), a Turkish nationalist,^[1][2] patriot, and journalist of Dönmeh descent. ^[3][4][5][6]

Hailed as a Turkish war hero, his name has been given by the Turkish Armed Forces to the Information Center of the Turkish General Staff (Genelkurmay İletişim Başkanlığı'nın Hasan Tahsin Bilgi Merkezi). A member of the Ottoman Special Organization, he unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Noel and Charles Roden Buxton in Romania during World War I.^[7] He was sentenced to five years imprisonment for the attempt but released when German forces overran Romania.^[8]: 75

He opened fire on the Greek soldiers who landed at Smyrna (present day İzmir) on 15 May 1919^[9] in the opening act of the Greek occupation of more than three years that extended over a large part of western Anatolia, as well as of the Greco-Turkish War. He was killed on the spot on 15 May 1919 after killing the Greek standard-bearer. At the time of his death he had been publishing and writing for the newspaper Hukuk-u Beşer (Ottoman Turkish for Human Rights).^[10]

The first bullet statue of Hasan Tahsin, İzmir, Turkey

References

1. Bozkurt Güvenç, Türk Kimliği, Kültür Bakanlığı, 1993, pg. 32. (in Turkish)
2. Yaşar Aksoy, Hasan Tahsin’in Anlamı Archived 9 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Haberhüriyeti
3. Arda Sualp - M. Ali Eren, "Cumhuriyet hanedanları" Archived 18 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Aksiyon, Sayı: 51 / Tarih : 25 November 1995.(in Turkish)
4. Ilgaz Zorlu, Evet, ben Selânikliyim: Türkiye Sabetaycılığı, Belge Yayınları, 1999, p. 95. (in Turkish)
5. Abdurrahman Küçük, Dönmeler ve Dönmelik Tarihi, Ünal Matbaası, 1979, pg. 237. (in Turkish)
6. Orhan Türkdoğan, Osmanlı'dan Günümüze Türk Toplum Yapısı, Çamlıca Yayınları, 2002, pg. 166. (in Turkish)
7. "Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa üyesi Hasan Tahsin", Hürriyet, 17 Mayıs 2009 (in Turkish)
8. Noel-Buxton, Noel Noel-Buxton Baron; Leese, Charles Leonard (1919). Balkan Problems and European Peace. G. Allen & Unwin. p. 75.
9. Yaşar Aksoy, Jülide Tunaseli, Love for 70 years: Izmir Fair, Metropolitan Municipality of Izmir, 2001, pg. 1.
10. ".:: Hasan Tahsin'in Anlamı ::". Archived from the original on 26 November 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2013.

• Report of the Inter-Allied Commission of Inquiry (May-September 1919) by the Members of the Commission; Adm. Bristol, the US Delegate - Gen. Hare, the British Delegate - Gen. Bunoust, the French Delegate - Gen. Dall'Olio, the Italian Delegate. The statements in defense of the Greek government presented by Col. Mazarakis.