Salih Bozok

Salih Bozok
Born December 1881
Salonica (Thessaloniki), Ottoman Empire
Died 25 April 1941(1941-04-25) (aged 59–60)
Istanbul, Turkey
Buried at Cebeci Askerî Şehitliği
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
 Turkey
Years of service Ottoman Empire: 1903 – November 1918
Turkey: 1920–?
Rank Ottoman Empire: Kaymakam
Turkey: Yarbay
Commands held Chief aide-de-camp of the commander of the Second Army
Chief aide-de-camp of the commander of the Seventh Army
Battles/wars Balkan Wars
World War I
Turkish War of Independence
Other work Member of the TBMM (Bozok)
Member of the administrative board of the Türkiye İş Bankası

Salih Bozok (1881 – April 25, 1941) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and later the Turkish Army and a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He was the chief aide-de-camp of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), the founder of modern Turkey.[1]

Bozok was a close childhood and lifelong friend of Atatürk, both having been born in 1881 in Salonica and having attended the Monastir Military High School together. On November 10, 1938, upon witnessing the dead body of Atatürk in the latter's bedroom of Dolmabahçe Palace, a distraught and stunned Bozok stepped outside and shot himself through the chest with a pistol. However, the bullet narrowly missed his heart, and Bozok did not succumb to his fatal wound until April 1941.

Bozok's life and friendship with Atatürk was depicted in the successful 2010 Turkish film Veda.

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  1. ↑ Türk Parlamento Tarihi Araştırma Grubu, TBMB - II. Dönem 1923-1927 - III. Cilt: II. Dönem Milletvekillerin Özgeçmişleri, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Vakfı Yayınları, Ankara, 1995, ISBN 975-7291-04-8, pp. 155-156.

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