WThis list includes recipients of the Medal of Independence with Red-Green Ribbon of Turkey.
WFahrettin Altay was a Turkish military officer. Turkish tank Altay is named in honor of him.
WÖmer Lütfi Argeşo or Ömer Lütfü Argeşo was an officer of the Ottoman Army and of the Turkish Army. He served in the 1st cabinet of the Executive Ministers of Turkey in 1920-21.
WKemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and theories became known as Kemalism. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century.
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.
WRefet Bele, also known as Refet Bey or Refet Pasha, was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army, where he retired as a general.
WMustafa Fevzi Çakmak was a Turkish field marshal (Mareşal) and politician. He served as the Chief of General Staff from 1918 and 1919 and later the Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire in 1920. He later joined the provisional Government of the Grand National Assembly and became the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense and later as the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1921 to 1922. He was the second Chief of the General Staff of the provisional Ankara Government and the first Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Turkey.
WAli Fuat Cebesoy was a Turkish army officer and politician.
WAli 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.
WCafer Tayyar Eğilmez was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.
WCavit Erdel was a military officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.
WHüsrev Gerede was a Turkish 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.
WMustafa İsmet İnönü was a Turkish general and statesman, who served as the second President of Turkey from 11 November 1938 to 22 May 1950, and its Prime Minister three times: from 1923 to 1924, 1925 to 1937, and 1961 to 1965.
WMusa Kâzım Karabekir was a Turkish general and politician. He was the commander of the Eastern Army of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I and served as Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey before his death.
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.
WSelâhattin Köseoğlu also known as Çolak Selâhattin, Hüseyin Selâhattin Bey was a military officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army. He was also a politician of the Republic of Turkey.
WMehmet Suphi Kula was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army.
WMustafa Necati, also known as Mustafa Necati Uğural was a Turkish statesman in the early years of the Turkish Republic, who served as the Minister of National Education during the reform period. He died before the Turkish Surname Law was adopted and the surname Uğural is actually the surname his family members adopted after his death.
WRıza Nur was a Turkish surgeon, politician and writer. He was prominent in the years immediately after the First World War, where he served as a cabinet minister but was subsequently marginalised, and became a critic of the new regime.
WKâzım Fikri Özalp was a Turkish military officer, politician, and one of the leading figures in the Turkish War of Independence.
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.