Hasan Tahsin

For the Ottoman general, see Hasan Tahsin Pasha

Hasan Tahsin
Born	Osman Nevres 1888 Salonica, Ottoman Empire
Died	May 15, 1919 Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Ottoman
Ethnicity	Turk
Occupation	Journalist, member of the Ottoman Special organization
Organization	Special Organization
Known for	opening of fire on the Greek soldiers that landed at Smyrna
Political movement	Pan-Turkism

Hasan Tahsin Receb (born Osman Nevres ) (1888 Salonica - May 15, 1919 Smyrna) was an Ottoman Turk.A member of the Ottoman special Organization, he unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the Buxton Brothers: Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton and Charles Roden Buxton in Romania during World War I.^[1]

He was the first to open fire on the Greek soldiers that landed at Smyrna (present day Izmir) on May 15, 1919^[2] 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 (1919-1922).

References

^ "Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa üyesi Hasan Tahsin", Hürriyet, 17 Mayıs 2009 (Turkish)
^ Yaşar Aksoy, Jülide Tunaseli, Love for 70 years: Izmir Fair, Metropolitan Municipality of Izmir, 2001, p. 1.

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.