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Yakup Satar
Born	(1898-03-11)11 March 1898 Crimea, Russian Empire
Died	(2008-04-02)2 April 2008 (aged 110 years, 22 days)
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire  Turkey
Years of service	1915–1923
Battles / wars	World War I Second Battle of Kut (POW) Turkish War of Independence

Yakup Satar (11 March 1898 – 2 April 2008) was a Turkish soldier who is believed to have been the last Ottoman veteran of the First World War. He died at age 110.

Born in Crimea, Satar joined the army of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. On 23 February, 1917, he was taken prisoner by the British in the Baghdad campaign's Second Battle of Kut. Freed after the end of the war, Satar then served in the forces of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the Turkish War of Independence, which lasted from 1919 to 1923.

Shortly before his 110th birthday, he was treated for a minor infection at a military hospital before being released home, where he lived with his daughter in the Seyitgazi district of Eskişehir. He died soon after turning 110.

His memories from the War of Independence and his daily life along with those of two other veterans, Ömer Küyük and Veysel Turan, are depicted in the documentary film Son Buluşma (2007) (English: The Last Meeting) by Nesli Çölgeçen.

See also

• Crimean Tatars
• List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
• Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence
• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, a Turkish Sumerologist and fellow supercentenarian

References

1. yakup satar, ultime vétéran de l'Empire Ottoman, dernier survivant turque de la première guerre mondiale
2. Times obituary
3. "Independence War veteran released from hospital". 26 February 2008. Archived from the original on 4 March 2008.
4. Beyazperde (in Turkish)

External links

• The Times: Yakup Satar, The last Turkish veteran of the First World War who also fought for the independence of Turkey

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