Hasan Tahsin

Journalist, Deceased Person

1888 – 1919

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Who was Hasan Tahsin?

Hasan Tahsin Receb was an Ottoman Sabbatean Turkish nationalist journalist. Being a member of the Ottoman special Organization, he unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the Buxton Brothers: Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton and Charles Roden Buxton in Romania during World War I.

He is said to have been the first to open fire on the Greek soldiers that landed at Smyrna on May 15, 1919 in the opening act of the Greek occupation of more than three years that extended over a large part of western Anatolia, as well as of the Greco-Turkish War.

At the time of his death he was publishing and writing for the newspaper "Hukuk-u Beşer".

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Born
1888
Thessaloniki
Also known as
  • Osman Nevres
  • Hasan Tahsin Receb
Nationality
  • Ottoman Empire
Profession
Education
  • Collège de Sorbonne
Died
May 15, 1919
İzmir

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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