9th Infantry Division (Ottoman Empire)

The 9th Infantry Division was a formation of the Ottoman Turkish Army, during the Balkan Wars, and the First World War.

Gallipoli Campaign

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Two thirds of the 19th Division were Syrians under Colonel Mustafa Kemal (Kemal Atatürk).[1][2][3] The struggle formed the basis for the Turkish War of Independence and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey eight years later. "Two thirds of the troops who made up his (colonel Mustafa Kemal) 19th Division that faced the first wave of the Allied invasion were Syrian Arabs, comprising the 72nd and 77th regiments of the Ottoman army", according to Bill Sellars, Australian writer and historian.[4]

Formation

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25th Infantry Regiment
26th Infantry Regiment
27th Infantry Regiment

References

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Footnotes
  1. ^ McKay 2018, p. 93.
  2. ^ Tamari & Turjman 2011, p. 13.
  3. ^ Erickson 2001, pp. 76–77.
  4. ^ "The forgotten Arabs of Gallipoli". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
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