"Turkey's last soldier from Independence war dies in Istanbul
Ankara - The last surviving Turkish soldier from the Turkish War of Independence died in Istanbul on Tuesday aged 105, the Anadolu news agency reported. Born into the family of a naval officer in the Istanbul suburb of Uskudar in 1903, Mustafa Sekip Birgol attended a military high school before joining Turkish forces under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal fighting Allied partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after it was defeated in the First World War."
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