He was born in Thessaloniki in 1881. The first middle school education and military education as a student made ​​a part of the Thessaloniki. Military High School and graduated from the monastery. Land Warfare School in 1902, graduated from the War College in 1905. Army took a variety of tasks. Attache in Sofia in 1913 was found to be paramilitary.

 During the First World War, Battles in the Dardanelles, he served as Division Commander. Since 1916, the Corps and the Army Command East and South fronts did. Recover from enemy invasion forces, was in charge of  Bitlis, and Mus. Took part in the Palestinian and Syrian fronts.

 Armistice Armistice Treaty of Sevres after the invasion by foreigners of the country on the basis of the provisions of the last Ottoman Sultan Khan by Vahid out of Anatolia, the Turkish national struggle began. Amasya Circular gönderildi.19 May 1919, Samsun, Erzurum and Sivas Congresses gathered. Resigned from the military duties collected on 23 April 1920 in Ankara, Turkey Grand National Assembly. Was Elected President of the Assembly. August 5, 1921, the Commander in Chief taking on the task of the Greek invasion of Anatolia continued to struggle for the rescue. Won the Battle of Sakarya. September 19, 1921, the Assembly was given to him by the marshal and the traditional title of Gazi.

 Despite all efforts, the growing disease of Ataturk, the Dolmabahce Palace on 10 November 1938, died at five past nine o’clock. 21 November 1938, the Museum of Ethnography’s body placed in a temporary grave, November 10, 1953, in each province in the country brought to our lands will be prepared with the eternal rest at the mausoleum was buried in a ceremony at the grave.