WYunus Nadi Abalıoğlu was a renowned Turkish journalist and the founder of the newspaper Cumhuriyet. He was known to be a sympathizer of the Nazi regime before the war, as he published many antisemitic propaganda articles praising Adolf Hitler.
WYörük Ali Efe was a Turkish guerilla leader in the Ottoman Empire, and an officer in the Turkish Army during the Turkish War of Independence. He was an important leader in Kuva-yi Milliye of the Aegean Region. After the declaration of republic he resigned from his office and worked as a farmer and industrialist. He was one of the last Zeybeks in Turkish history.
WAşir Atlı was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.
WMahmut Celâl Bayar was a Turkish economist and politician who was the third President of Turkey from 1950 to 1960; previously he was Prime Minister of Turkey from 1937 to 1939.
WAli Fuat Cebesoy was a Turkish army officer and politician.
WÇerkes Ethem or Psheu Ethem of House of Dipsheu was an Ottoman militia leader of Circassian origin who initially gained fame for fighting and gaining victories against the Allied powers invading Anatolia in the aftermath of World War I and afterwards during the Turkish War of Independence.
WHüsrev Gerede was a Turkish - Bosnian diplomat and career officer, who served in the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army.
WMehmet Cevat Abbas Gürer was an officer of the Ottoman Army, the Turkish Army, and a politician of the Republic of Turkey.
WAli Kılıç or Kilij Ali also known as Kılıç Ali Bey was an officer of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army. He was also a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He married with Füreya Koral, one of the first Turkish ceramicists. He was appointed a judge of the Independence Tribunal in the mid 1920s. Football coach Gündüz Kılıç was his son.
WAhmet Muzaffer Kılıç (1897–1959) was a Turkish soldier during the Turkish Liberation War, a member of the Turkish National Movement, and a politician of the Republic of Turkey.
WHüseyin Rauf Orbay was an Ottoman-born Turkish naval officer, statesman and diplomat of Circassian origin.
WHacı Topal Osman Ağa was an Ottoman officer, a militia leader of the National Forces, a lieutenant colonel of the Turkish army during the Turkish War of Independence, and perpetrator of the Armenian genocide and Pontic genocide.
WMehmed Said, better known as Şahin Bey, was the commander of the Turkish revolutionaries that were stationed in the city of Gaziantep during the Turkish War of Independence. He was of Chechen-Circassian descent.
WArslan Toğuz also known as Arslan Toğuzata, Arslan Bey was a police commissioner of the Ottoman Empire, a militia leader and politician of Turkey.
WAli Saip Ursavaş, also known as Ali Saib Bey was a Turkish career officer and one of the early key members of the CHP, who served as an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army. He was also a prominent politician of the Republic of Turkey. In 1925 he was nominated prosecutor at the Independence Tribunal in Diyarbakır which was established to counter the Sheikh Said Rebellion and sentenced Sheikh Said to death. Later he succeeded Hacim Muhittin Çarıklı as its president.
WHüseyin Avni Zaimler, also known as Huseyin Avni Bey or Huseyin Avni Pasha, was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey, he became a politician and served in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. With Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's order on November 21, 1923, Huseyin Avni received the Medal of Independence with Red-Green Ribbon, the highest decoration at the time, for his service during the Turkish War of Independence. On 24 January 1924, he was promoted to rank Mirliva. He was a descendant of the Ottoman Grand Vizier Lala Mehmed Pasha.