For other Kâzım Pasha, see Kâzım Pasha (disambiguation).

Kâzım Dirik (1881 in Bitola, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – July 3, 1941 in Edirne) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. During his political career he was Governor of Izmir between 1926 and 1935 and later also an Inspector General of the Second Inspectorate-General in the Turkish western provinces and involved with the Turkification and resettlement program of the Turkish state. He presented the idea of the "Ideal Republican Village" (Turkish: İdeal *huriyet Köyü).

See also

• List of high-ranking commanders of the Turkish War of Independence

Sources

External links

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• Bilal N. Şimşir, "*huriyetin İlk Çeyrek Yüzyılında Türk Diplomatik Temsilcilikleri ve Temsilcileri (1920-1950)", Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi, Sayı 64-65-66, Cilt: XXII, Mart-Temmuz-Kasım 2006. (in Turkish)

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