Hasan Tahsin

{{Short description|Turkish-Jewish war hero}}

{{About||the Ottoman general|Hasan Tahsin Pasha|the Albanian theologian and philosopher|Hasan Tahsini|the Turkish Cypriot divan poet and Islamic jurist|Hasan Tahsin (poet)}}

{{family name hatnote|Osman Nevres|||lang=Ottoman Turkish}}

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| name = Hasan Tahsin

| native_name = Osman Nevres

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| birth_name = Osman Nevres

| birth_date = 1888

| birth_place = Salonica, Ottoman Empire

| death_date = 15 May 1919

| death_place = İzmir, Ottoman Empire

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| nationality = Ottoman

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| occupation = Journalist, member of the Ottoman Special Organization

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| organization = Special Organization

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| known_for = Opening of fire on the Greek soldiers that landed at Smyrna

| party = Union and Progress Party

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Hasan Tahsin was the code name of Osman Nevres (1888 – 15 May 1919), a Turkish nationalist,Bozkurt Güvenç, Türk Kimliği, Kültür Bakanlığı, 1993, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GUlpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Hasan+Tahsin%22 pg. 32.] {{in lang|tr}}Yaşar Aksoy, [http://www.haberhurriyeti.com/IcerikDetay/533-hasan-tahsin%e2%80%99in-anlami.aspx Hasan Tahsin’in Anlamı] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709153623/http://haberhurriyeti.com/IcerikDetay/533-hasan-tahsin%E2%80%99in-anlami.aspx |date=9 July 2010}}, Haberhüriyeti patriot, and journalist of Dönmeh descent. Arda Sualp - M. Ali Eren, [http://www.aksiyon.com.tr/aksiyon/haber-1148-26-cumhuriyet-hanedanlari.html "Cumhuriyet hanedanları"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518101354/http://www.aksiyon.com.tr/aksiyon/haber-1148-26-cumhuriyet-hanedanlari.html |date=18 May 2015}}, Aksiyon, Sayı: 51 / Tarih : 25 November 1995.{{in lang|tr}}Ilgaz Zorlu, Evet, ben Selânikliyim: Türkiye Sabetaycılığı, Belge Yayınları, 1999, p. 95. {{in lang|tr}}Abdurrahman Küçük, Dönmeler ve Dönmelik Tarihi, Ünal Matbaası, 1979, pg. 237. {{in lang|tr}}Orhan Türkdoğan, Osmanlı'dan Günümüze Türk Toplum Yapısı, Çamlıca Yayınları, 2002, pg. 166.

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Hailed as a Turkish war hero, his name has been given by the Turkish Armed Forces to the Information Center of the Turkish General Staff (Genelkurmay İletişim Başkanlığı'nın Hasan Tahsin Bilgi Merkezi). A member of the Ottoman Special Organization, he unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Noel and Charles Roden Buxton in Romania during World War I.[http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/11667497.asp "Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa üyesi Hasan Tahsin"], Hürriyet, 17 Mayıs 2009 {{in lang|tr}} He was sentenced to five years imprisonment for the attempt but released when German forces overran Romania.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/balkanproblemseu00noel |page=[https://archive.org/details/balkanproblemseu00noel/page/75 75] |title=Balkan Problems and European Peace |last1=Noel-Buxton |first1=Noel Noel-Buxton Baron |last2=Leese |first2=Charles Leonard |date=1919 |publisher=G. Allen & Unwin |language=en}}{{rp|75}}

He opened fire on the Greek soldiers who landed at Smyrna (present day İzmir) on 15 May 1919Yaşar Aksoy, Jülide Tunaseli, Love for 70 years: Izmir Fair, Metropolitan Municipality of Izmir, 2001, pg. 1. in the opening act of the Greek occupation of more than three years that extended over a large part of western Anatolia, as well as of the Greco-Turkish War. He was killed on the spot on 15 May 1919 after killing the Greek standard-bearer. At the time of his death he had been publishing and writing for the newspaper Hukuk-u Beşer

(Ottoman Turkish for Human Rights).{{Cite web |url=http://www.haberhurriyeti.com/IcerikDetay/533-hasan-tahsin%E2%80%99in-anlami.aspx |title=.:: Hasan Tahsin'in Anlamı :: |access-date=17 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126060652/http://www.haberhurriyeti.com/IcerikDetay/533-hasan-tahsin%E2%80%99in-anlami.aspx |archive-date=26 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}

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