Mehmet Suphi Kula

{{Short description|Officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army}}

{{Infobox military person

| name = Mehmet Suphi Kula
1316-Sv. 57T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 138. {{in lang|tr}} (T.Ç. Head of the General Staff Military History Publications, Biographies of Commanders and Higher-Level Commanders Participating in the Turkish Independence War, Genkurmay Head Press, Ankara)

| birth_date = {{Birth-year|1881}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|10|19|1881||}}

| birth_place = Monastir (Bitola), Ottoman Empire (modern North Macedonia)

| death_place = Istanbul, Turkey

| placeofburial = State Cemetery

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| image = MSKula.jpg

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

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| serviceyears = Ottoman: 1901–1920
Turkey: 1920–1931

| rank = Mirliva

| commands = Cavalry Company of the headquarters of the IX Corps, Verification Committee of Istanbul Central Command
6th Cavalry Division, 14th Cavalry Division, 1st Cavalry Division, member of the Military Court of Cassation

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

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Mehmet Suphi Kula (1881 in Monastir (Bitola) – October 19, 1948 in Istanbul) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army. He captured Smyrna from the Greek forces during the Turkish War of Independence.

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