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Mehmet Atıf Ateşdağlı

Turkish military officer and statesperson (1876–1947)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ6809582 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mehmet Atıf Ateşdağlı (1876; Crete – December 3, 1947; Istanbul) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and of the Turkish Army.

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“Mehmet Atıf Ateşdağlı” enters the record as turkish military officer and statesperson (1876–1947). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mehmet, Atıf and Ateşdağlı can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mehmet Atıf Ateşdağlı” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.