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LETTER FROM A SOLDIER WHO GOES TO BATTLE / AN OTTOMAN VOLUNTEER (ALİ MUZAFFER BEY)

Title	LETTER FROM A SOLDIER WHO GOES TO BATTLE / AN OTTOMAN VOLUNTEER (ALİ MUZAFFER BEY)
Author	Ali Muzaffer Bey (b. ?/? - d. 1330/1912)
Publication Date:	18/09/2021
Subject	Turkish Literature in the Renovation Period - letter
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Library:	Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works
Record ID	muharebeye-giden-bir-askerin-mektubu-bir-osmanli-gonullusu-ali-muzaffer-bey
Date	1315/1899
Notes	Letter prepared by Ali Muzaffer Bey. The writer introduces the owner of the letter before transferring the letter. The letter belongs to a young man named Mustafa Nihat. Ali Muzaffer Bey includes the letter after giving general information about Mustafa Nihat. However, the missing pages leave our information incomplete about what is written in the letter. Based on the text obtained, it is seen that Mustafa Nihat's letter is about the 1897 Ottoman-Greek War. In the letter, he first talks about how valuable his homeland is and that he would gladly give his life for it. Then he deals with the tension that started between the Ottoman Empire and Greece. Due to the violations, Müşir Ethem Pasha started to dispatch soldiers to suitable parts of the border. Mustafa and his friends also set off from Alasonya. During war, cannons and bullets spread throughout nature as lightning and thunder. While the fight was continuing, the soldiers felt great sadness when they received the news that Abdülezel Pasha was martyred. The Milona pass is captured and it is reported that Yenişehir has been captured. The capture of Thessaly will be a definite success. Ali Muzaffer Bey points out that Mustafa Nihat and the letter are real, not fictional. What was told by Mustafa Nihat in the letter giving information about the war coincides with historical realities. At the end of the letter, there is an 8-stanza poem titled "An Ottoman Soldier", which is about the Ottoman-Greek War. The work titled "Letter of a Soldier Going to Battle/An Ottoman Volunteer", written in 1899, has 16 pages, but some of the pages of the work are missing. For the biography of Ali Muzaffer Bey, see. “Ali Muzaffer Bey”. Turkish Literature Names Dictionary.
ISBN	978-9944-237-87-1
Madde Yazarı	SÜMEYYE SAMAT
Alfabesi	Arap
Yapısı	Manzum-Mensur
Niteliği	Telif
Kaynakça	Ali Muzaffer (1899).Muharebeye Giden Bir Askerin Mektubu, Bir Osmanlı Gönüllüsü.İstanbul: Yuvanaki Panayotidis Matbaası. Aysal Necdet ve Tepe Cemal (2020).Osmanlı-Yunan Savaşı (Dömeke Meydan Muharebesi).Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi.
Atıf Bilgileri	SAMAT, SÜMEYYE. " MUHAREBEYE GİDEN BİR ASKERİN MEKTUBU / BİR OSMANLI GÖNÜLLÜSÜ (ALİ MUZAFFER BEY)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/muharebeye-giden-bir-askerin-mektubu-bir-osmanli-gonullusu-ali-muzaffer-bey. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].

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Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works

LETTER FROM A SOLDIER WHO GOES TO BATTLE / AN OTTOMAN VOLUNTEER (ALİ MUZAFFER BEY)

Author Ali Muzaffer Bey (b. ?/? - d. 1330/1912)

Publication Date 18/09/2021

Subject Turkish Literature in the Renovation Period - letter

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital No

Manuscript No

Library Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works

Record ID muharebeye-giden-bir-askerin-mektubu-bir-osmanli-gonullusu-ali-muzaffer-bey

Date 1315/1899

Notes Letter prepared by Ali Muzaffer Bey. The writer introduces the owner of the letter before transferring the letter. The letter belongs to a young man named Mustafa Nihat. Ali Muzaffer Bey includes the letter after giving general information about Mustafa Nihat. However, the missing pages leave our information incomplete about what is written in the letter. Based on the text obtained, it is seen that Mustafa Nihat's letter is about the 1897 Ottoman-Greek War. In the letter, he first talks about how valuable his homeland is and that he would gladly give his life for it. Then he deals with the tension that started between the Ottoman Empire and Greece. Due to the violations, Müşir Ethem Pasha started to dispatch soldiers to suitable parts of the border. Mustafa and his friends also set off from Alasonya. During war, cannons and bullets spread throughout nature as lightning and thunder. While the fight was continuing, the soldiers felt great sadness when they received the news that Abdülezel Pasha was martyred. The Milona pass is captured and it is reported that Yenişehir has been captured. The capture of Thessaly will be a definite success. Ali Muzaffer Bey points out that Mustafa Nihat and the letter are real, not fictional. What was told by Mustafa Nihat in the letter giving information about the war coincides with historical realities. At the end of the letter, there is an 8-stanza poem titled "An Ottoman Soldier", which is about the Ottoman-Greek War. The work titled "Letter of a Soldier Going to Battle/An Ottoman Volunteer", written in 1899, has 16 pages, but some of the pages of the work are missing. For the biography of Ali Muzaffer Bey, see. “Ali Muzaffer Bey”. Turkish Literature Names Dictionary.

ISBN 978-9944-237-87-1

Madde Yazarı SÜMEYYE SAMAT

Alfabesi Arap

Yapısı Manzum-Mensur

Niteliği Telif

Kaynakça Ali Muzaffer (1899).Muharebeye Giden Bir Askerin Mektubu, Bir Osmanlı Gönüllüsü.İstanbul: Yuvanaki Panayotidis Matbaası. Aysal Necdet ve Tepe Cemal (2020).Osmanlı-Yunan Savaşı (Dömeke Meydan Muharebesi).Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi.

Atıf Bilgileri SAMAT, SÜMEYYE. " MUHAREBEYE GİDEN BİR ASKERİN MEKTUBU / BİR OSMANLI GÖNÜLLÜSÜ (ALİ MUZAFFER BEY)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/muharebeye-giden-bir-askerin-mektubu-bir-osmanli-gonullusu-ali-muzaffer-bey. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].