Selahattin Adil

Selâhattin Âdil was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. He fought in the Gallipoli Campaign during the First World War, where he first organized the defence of the Dardanelles forts and later led a division in battle. He led a Turkish army corps during the Turkish War of Independence, where he fought first against the French occupation of Cilicia and later in the 1921 Battle of Sakarya. However, he resigned in 1923 because of disagreements with the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate. In the 1950s, he joined the Democrat Party led by Adnan Menderes. He retired in 1953 after developing differences with the party.