Nationality : Ottoman
Period : Late 19^th century
Owner : Hüseyin Avni Pasha

Commander-in-Chief Hüseyin Avni Pasha (1820-1876)

He was born in Isparta in 1820. He graduated from Harbiye in 1848 as staff captain and served in the Crimean War. After serving as Chief of Staff, Minister of Mekteb-i Harbiye-i Şahane [ Imperial Military School ], and Serasker District Governor he was assigned as governor of Crete island in 1867 when he was a commander there. He was re-appointed as army commander in 1868. He was removed from office and exiled during the grand viziership of Mahmut Nedim Pasha. Later, he became Governor to Aydın and Minister of Naval Affairs and was again assigned as commander-in-chief in 1873. He became grand vizier in 1874. 14 months later he was discharged from his office and acted in governor posts. When he was given the position of commander-in-chief for the fourth time he allied with the reformists and dethroned Sultan Murat Abdülaziz against whom he had a personal animosity on May 30, 1876, together with his three friends Grand Vizier Rüştü Pasha, President of State Council Mithat Pasha and Sheik-ül-Islam Hayrullah Effendi. Subsequent to change of the throne he fell in conflict with Constitutional Monarchy advocates. He kept serving as commander-in-chief while Sultan Murat was on the throne. He was killed on June 15, 1876 by Staff Major Çerkez Hasan, brother in law and a follower of Sultan Murat Abdülaziz.

Ex-minister of Military Affairs and Grand Vizier Mahmut Şevket Pasha was intercepted with a funeral convoy panel on June 11, 1913 when he was going to Babıali [ the Sublime Porte], from the Ministry of War via the Divan way and three assassins taking advantage of stopping of the car fired their guns and killed the Pasha and his aide. In the section prepared in memento of those incident assassins’ guns and Mahmut Şevket Pasha’s uniforms are exhibited.

Nationality : Ottoman
Period : Late 19^th century
Owner : Enver Pasha

Enver Pasha (1881-1922)

He was an Ottoman soldier and diplomat. He was one of the leaders of Union and Progress and has served as commander-in-chief of the Ottoman armies in the First World War. He died on August 4, 1922 in the vicinity of Belcivan city, Tajikistan.

Nationality : Turkish
Period : 20^th century
Owner : Kâzım Karabekir

Kâzım Karabekir (1882-1948)

He was born in Istanbul in 1882. He graduated from the Fatih Military Junior High School, Kuleli Military Senior High School and Army Military Academy and Staff Officers’ Schools. He was assigned to Bitola in 1905 as a staff captain and there founded the Bitola Branch of the Committee Union and Progress together with Enver Pasha. He served as Division Chief of Staff in the Operations Army which came to Istanbul to suppress the March 31 Movement. Following the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy he fully resumed his military duties. He contributed to suppress the Albanian resurrection, during the Balkan War and in the defense of Edirne. In the First World War he took part in the campaigns in Iran and the east. Later he was appointed as Commander of the 14th Division and sent to the Dardanelles Front with his Division. Upon the success he achieved there he was promoted to colonel in 1915. He fought against English forces in Iraq. Having rescued Erzincan and Erzurum from the Armenians in 1918 and then, Kars, Sarıkamış, Gümrü Fortresses and Karaköse from the Russians he was promoted to brigadier general. Subsequent to the Treaty of Mondros he rejected the offer for Chief of General Staff from the Grand Vizier and served in Anatolia. He played an important role in convening the Erzurum Congress which was under preparation then. He was appointed as the Commander of the Eastern Front in June 1920 and signed the Treaty of Alexandropol (Gümrü) with the Armenians. He was promoted to Lieutenant General. He acted as Commission Chairman in the Kars Treaty negotiations. During the transition to the multi-party regime he co-founded the first opposition party the 'Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası' the Progressive Republican Party as the Istanbul MP. He served as Istanbul MP in Grand National Assembly from 1938 to 1946. He was elected Chairman of the Grand National Assembly in 1946 and passed away in 1948 while serving in that capacity. The superior command and course of action and the brave attitudes of General Kâzım Karabekir, especially, in the battles of the Caucasian Front earned him a distinguished place in military history. He had 44 printed works on military history.

Nationality : Ottoman
Period : 19^th century
Owner : Demirci Mehmet Efe

Demirci Mehmet Efe (1885-1959)

He was born in the Pirlibey village of Nazilli. He deserted military service during the First World War inflamed by an act of an Armenian officer and began to accommodate in the mountain and become an efe [a Zeibek leader]. He became known in the vicinity of Ödemiş, Denizli and Aydın. Upon the Greek embarkation in İzmir on May 15, 1919, he joined the resistance group. He joined under the command of Major İsmail Hakkı Bey on July 10, 1919 in Umurlu. Proving useful in raids against the Greeks he was assigned as Commander of the Kiosk Front of the Kuvayımilliye [the National Forces]. However, subsequent to the Kuvayımilliye headquarters moving out of the Kiosk he started to act waywardly. After the assignment of Refet Bey (Bele) and Commander of the Southern Front established on November 10, 1920 he accepted neither the invitation to join the regular army from Çerkez Ethem, (Circassian Ethem) nor from Refet Bey. Accordingly, Refet Bey organized an incursion and dispersed Demirci's forces. Later, the Ankara Government sent him a message stating that he completed his national duty and ought to take respite. Demirci honouring this request retreated to his village and lived there until his death.

Nationality : Turkish
Period : 1921
Owner : Sami YETİK

Sami Yetik (1878-1945)

A representative of military artists of the 1914 generation, Sami Yetik 's interest in painting started in KuProminent representative of military artists of the 1914 generation, Sami Yetik's interest in painting started in Kuleli Military High School and when he started his education in 1896 in Harbiye, painting became one of the imperative elements of his life under the influence of Hoca Ali Rıza. In 1899 Sami Yetik was assigned as instructor in Baytar Askerî Rüştiye [military middle school] in Eyüp as a young officer and entered the Sanayii Nefise Mektebi [the Fine Arts School], in the same year and graduated with the first degree in 1906. Sami Yetik was sent to Paris for fine arts education with fosterage of Tevfik Pasha, Inspector of Military Education and important name of the period known for his close interest for the arts circles and under the permission of District Governor Mahmut Şevket Pasha. Yetik who stayed in Paris from 1910 to 1912 studied in Academie Julian under J.Paul Laurens and continued Ecole Pijié for some time. He returned home in 1912 during the Balkan War and joined the war together with his close friend Mehmet Ali Laga. Having been captured in Edirne , he was taken to Sofia . Sami Yetik continued his military career for some more time after the war and retired as a major in 1933. In 1940 he prepared the first volume of his book titled “Our Painters 1” which he contemplated in two volumes, however, the second volume could not be printed, despite being ready, due to his death.

It is the flag which students from the Galatasaray Lycee painted with their blood and sent to the Turkish Brigade fighting in Korea.

This seal, belonged Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the hero of the national struggle and founder of Mustafa Kemal ATATURK, used to be used in his official and private papers before Letter Revolution in 1928. When the seal stamps, reads letter of (غ)ĞAYIN, (م)MİM ve (ك)KEF, which are initials of Gazi Mustafa Kemal’s name. Relief letters written by sünbüli which is a type of Arabic hand-writings. The seal used to stamp on cases with beeswax.

On September, 1922, this degree was entitled to Gazi Mustafa Kemal who was the leader hero of Turkish Struggle, by Medreseh of Literature in Darü’l-fünun of İstanbul [Today, Social Sciences Faculty in University of İstanbul], in order to appreciate his efforts that providing to independence of Turks and other Islamic countries. Degree and its binding have been fully decorated. Its ornamentations, enriched with gold, are characteristic examples of classical Ottoman decorative arts.

Nationality : Ottoman
Period : 19^th century

The heat section of the tent finial made from brass metal consists of a 12-point star and one crescent.

Nationality : Ottoman
Period : 19^th century

The wooden pole has a spiral form and lacquering, low embossing and engraving techniques were used.

Nationality : Ottoman
Period : 19^th century

The metal coupling joining the parts of the tent pole is in spiral form and engraving and low embossing techniques were used.

Nationality : Ottoman
Period : 17^th - 18^th century

Nationality : Ottoman
Period : 17^th century second half

The external face is made of green cotton fabric and the inner face from red cotton fabric.