Yakup Satar

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Yakup Satar
March 11, 1898(1898-03-11) – April 2, 2008 (aged 110)
Place of birth Crimea, Russian Empire
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
Years of service 1915 – 1922
Battles/wars World War I
Second Battle of Kut
Turkish War of Independence

Yakup Satar (Ottoman Turkish: ﻳﻜﻮﭗ ﺳﺘﺎﺮ, March 11, 1898 – April 2, 2008) is, at age 110, believed to have been the last Turkish veteran of the First World War.[1]

Born in Crimea, Satar joined the army of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. On February 23, 1917, he was taken prisoner by the British in the Baghdad campaign's Second Battle of Kut. Satar also served in the forces of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the Turkish War of Independence, which lasted from 1919 to 1922 (it is unclear when he was freed).

Shortly before his 110th birthday, he was treated for a minor infection at a military hospital before being released home, where he lived with his daughter in the Hacı Seyit district of Eskişehir.[2] He died soon after turning 110.

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  1. ^ yakup satar , ultime vétéran de l'Empire Ottoman, dernier survivant turque de la première guerre mondiale
  2. ^ Independence War veteran released from hospital (2008-2-26). Archived from the original on 2008-03-04.

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