Very Good Turkish Original typescript letter signed (TLS) 'A. F. Cebesoy' sent to Salih [Sener]. 23x15 cm. In Turkish. Dated 'November 1, 1939'. Response to greetings of Salih Keçeci. Text: "Sayin Bay Salih, Tebrikinize tesekkür ederim. Bayraminizi kutlular, sihhat ve saadetler dilrim. Hürmetler., Naia Vekili, A[li] F[uad] Cebesoy.". Ali Fuat was born in September 1882 to father Ismail Fazil Pasha and mother Zekiye Hanim. Ali Fuat was the grandson (on his mother's side) of Mushir Mehmet Ali Pasha. (Ludwig Karl Friedrich Detroit) who was the commander of the Danube Army (Tuna Sark Ordusu) during the Russo-Turkish war, participated in the Congress of Berlin as one of three representatives of the Ottoman Empire and was killed on September 7, 1878. in Dakovica (Kosovo) by Albanian insurgents who were dissatisfied with the results of the Berlin Congress. Ali Fuat attended the War School in 1902, and graduated from the Ottoman War College in 1905 as a Staff Captain. He was assigned to the 3rd Rifle Battalion (Üçüncü Nisanci Taburu), the 28th Cavalry Regiment (Yirmi Sekizinci Süvari Alayi) based in Beirut under the command of Fifth Army based in Damascus, and later to 15th Artillery Regiment (On Besinci Topçu Alayi) based in Thessalonica under the command of Third Army as an intern. He joined the Committee of Union and Progress (membership number was 191). On June 28, he was assigned to the staff officer of the Third Army. And then he was promoted to the rank of Senior Captain and appointed to the area commander of Karaferye (present day: Veria). On January 9, 1909, he was appointed to the military attaché in Rome, Italy. On October 1, 1911, he was appointed to the chief of the 1st department (chief of operations) of the Western Army On February 20, he was temporarily appointed to the chief of staff of the VII Corps</a>. And then he was appointed to the commander of a detachment that was formed to liberate Ipek (present day: Pec) and Yakova (Dakovica) from insurgents. On January 15, 1914, he was appointed to the chief of staff of the VIII Corps. After Kress von Kressenstein was appointed the chief of staff of this corps, replacing Ali Fuat, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Kaymakam) and on September 19, he was appointed to the commander of the 25th Division. In January 1915, he participated in the First Suez Offensive. On January 7, he and his division left Birüssebi (present day: Beersheba) for the desert and arrived at the front of the Suez Canal, but the Ottoman forces couldn't pass the canal and retreated. He and his division went back to Gaza on January 20, 1915. After the Gallipoli Campaign was launched, the 25th Division was dispatched to the Gallipoli Front on May 24, 1915, and started to arrive there on June 2, 1916. His division entered to the order of the XVII Corps of the First Army and deployed in the Bulair-Saros area. On January 20, 1916, he was appointed to the commander of the 14th Division. At first, his division was intended for use in the Second Suez Offensive and sent to Maallaha, but because of the Russian offensive, his division instead came under the command of the Second Army under Ahmet Izzet Pasha, and on June 27, were sent back from the Rayak station to Aleppo and dispatched to Diyârbekir. On September 30, he was promoted to commander of the 5th Division and in January he became the chief of staff of the Second Army. On January 12, 1917, he returned to the Sina-Palestine Front and in April he became the deputy commander of the Sina-Palestine Front. On June 30, 1917, he became the commander of the XX Corps. After the Armistice of Mudros was signed, he concurrently became the deputy commander of Seventh Army, replacing Mustafa Kemal. After the Seventh Army was abolished, he transferred the headquarters of the XX Corps from Syria to Eregli, then to Konya and to Ankara. Ali Fuat Pasha organized the resistance in Western Turkey against the Greek invasion and thus actually started the National Independence War.
