Last Turkish WWI vet Yakup Satar, 110
Posted: Friday, April 4th, 2008 8:20 amThe last Turkish veteran of the First World War who also fought for the independence of Turkey
The last Turkish veteran of the First World War, Yakup Satar, who has died at the age of 110, fought at the Second Battle of Kut in the Mesopotamian campaign. He was captured there by the British in February 1917, as Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Maude’s British and Indian army drove the Ottoman Empire’s forces back up the Tigris from Basra towards Baghdad. … Read full obituary
