Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez

{{short description|Turkish politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}}

{{Infobox military person

| name = Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez
1316-Sv. 4T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 129. {{in lang|tr}}

| birth_date = {{Birth-date|1877}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|01|03|1877}}

| birth_place = Priştine (Pristina), Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern Kosovo)

| death_place = Istanbul, Turkey

| placeofburial = Karacaahmet Mezarlığı

| placeofburial_label =

| image = Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez.jpg

| caption = Cafer Tayyar (Eğilmez)

| nickname =

| allegiance = {{flag|Ottoman Empire}}
{{flag|Turkey}}

| branch =

| serviceyears = Ottoman: 1901–1920
Turkey: 1920 – January 1928

| rank = Mirliva

| commands = 1st Division, II Corps, I Corps, II Corps, I Corps
Trakya Kuva-yi Milliye, VII Corps

| unit =

| battles = Balkan Wars
First World War
Turkish War of Independence

| awards =

| laterwork = Member of the GNAT (Edirne)
Governor of the Samsun Province

}}

Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez or Cafer Bey (1877 – January 3, 1958) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. He participated in the Defense of Gallipoli during World War I and after the war had ended, he joined the forces of Mustafa Kemal Pasha and fought in the Turkish War of Independence.