Ali Bey

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Ali Çetinkaya, also known as "Kel" Ali Bey was an Ottoman-born Turkish army officer and politician, who served eight terms in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, including a period in 1939–40 as his country's first Minister of Transport. On 9 February 1925, he shot Halit Karsıalan in the Turkish Parliament. Karsıalan died from his injuries five days later. Çetinkaya was not charged after prosecutors concluded that he acted in self-defence.

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Battles (2)

• 1479

  Battle of Breadfield

  Ottoman–Hungarian Wars · Ottoman Empire

• 1919

  Greek landing at Smyrna

  Greco-Turkish War · Ottoman Empire