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Adnan Harun Yahya

An Armenian with a Medal of Independence:
Berç Keresteciyan Türker

After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the British deep state fur-
thered its policy on an independent Armenian state in East Anatolia.
This propaganda led some Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire

to aspire to a nation-state and to rebel against the Ottoman Empire.
However, many other Ottoman citizens of Armenian origin under-

stood that this was only a plot of the British deep state and refused to
be a part of it. Berç Keresteciyan, who later obtained the surname
Türker upon suggestion from Atatürk, was one of the heroes of the

Turkish War of Independence.

Prior to Mustafa Kemal's departure on SS Bandırma for Samsun, Ker-
esteciyan went to Sadettin Ferit, who was Mustafa Kemal's lawyer and

said: "I believe you are his attorney and a close associate. A British tor-
pedo will sink the steamer of the Pasha outside the Bosphorus. I'm

warning you. Please tell Pasha and keep to the coastline." With this very
important message, he displayed an exemplary loyalty to his country
and people, and became almost as important as those people that ig-

nited the fire of the Turkish War of Independence.

Moreover, as the Vice Chairman of the Hilal-i Ahmer Society (now
known as the Turkish Red Crescent), he personally took care of send-

ing medication to Anatolia using small sailing boats. It is also a record-
ed fact that during one of the most critical points of the Battle of

Sakarya, upon the request of Mustafa Kemal, he withdrew 15 thousand
Lira from his personal account and donated it so that cannon firing
equipment could be purchased. For these exemplary services, he was

later awarded with a White Stripe Medal of Independence. 1

1. Fehmi Akın, Afyonkarahisar milletvekilleri: yaşam öyküleri ve meclisteki faaliyetleri [Afy-
onkarahisar MPs: Life Stories and Parliamentary Works], IQ Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, 2009,
pp. 107-108