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  • Army Officer Ranks (general)

    genelkurmay başkanı—> chief of general staff

    mareşal—> field Marshall                 başkomutan —> commander in chief

    orgeneral —> general                        korgeneral—>lieutenant-general

    tümgeneral —> major general           tuğgeneral—>brigadiergeneral
    albay —>colonel                    yarbay—>lieutenant colonel

    binbaşı—>majör                     yüzbaşı—>captain
    üsteğmen—>first lieutenant  teğmen —>second lieutenant

    PİYADE/infantry, infrantyman; TOPÇU/artillery, artilleryman; İSTİHKAM/military engineering; SÜVARİ/cavalry….

     

    READING:  (source= David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922, Penguin Books, 1989). THE WARRIORS: Shaken by the Allied bombardment of 18 March, Enver Pasha announced an uncharacteristic and important decision: he relinquished command of the Ottoman forces at the Dardanalles to the German general, Liman von Sanders. It ran counter to all of Enver’s instincts to turno ver his Moslem warriors to a foreign—and Christian— commander. Until that moment he had resisted pressures to turn over authority, even to the German experts who served as departmental and staff advisers. Although he had allowed German officers in his War Ministry to move into key posts in the Departments of Operations, Intelligence, Railroads, Supply, Munitions, Coal, and Fortresses, he had jealously questioned the judgements and circumscribed the authority of his German colleagues; and in many areas he finally stepped aside on the battlefield that most mattered.

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