Ismail Hakkı Berkok
Turkish journalist and statesperson (1889–1954)
Ismail Hakkı Berkok (Turkish: İsmail Hakkı Berkok, Kabardian: Жэрэщты Алий икъуэ Исмел; 1890 – 11 May 1954) was a Turkish general, publicist, historian and deputy of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey of Circassian origin. He wrote a detailed work about Circassian history and was a Circassian nationalist.
Ancestry and early life
Father of Ismail – Ali Berkok was a muhajir from the North Caucasus. He descended from an aristocratic family from Dzhereshti (Jereshty). Together with his brother Yusuf he moved to the Ottoman Empire after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) following the Russo-Circassian War.
After the relocation, they settled in the Kayseri Province in the Pinarbashi district and called it Jereshty. Ismail Hakkı Berkok was born there.
He lost his parents early, but in spite of all the difficulties Ismail Berkok yet graduated from high school and enrolled in the Ottoman Military College, which he graduated from in 1910.
In the World War I and Turkish War of Independence
World War Ismail Berkok met in Macedonia on the Balkan front. Then he participated in operations and hostilities in the Caucasus and the Middle East fronts, particularly in Iraq.
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