Staff Captain Mustafa Kemal, a graduate of the Military Academy. (11.01.1905)

In the photo: The photograph taken by Mustafa Kemal in Beyoğlu to put on the Staff Captain's uniforms and send it to his mother.
Photo source: A A M Gazi Mustafa Kemal'in Hayatı, Hazırlayan; Hüseyin  Tosun, sayfa: 27 ISBN: 975 -16-1620-4.
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Staff Captain Mustafa Kemal, a graduate of the Military Academy. (January 11, 1905)

PHOTO TAKEN IN BEYOĞLU

aides and staffs may wear ceremonial attire. These cords are passed over the shoulder to take the right arm in and hooked under the chest of the jacket and up. Inflorescences with yellow metal parts at the ends dangle on the chest. On the sleeves, there are threads with the captain's mark and five bright buttons parallel to them. Finally the sword. He is a sword that looks like a human, superhuman miraculous, divine being, as inaccessible as a dream, as precious as the world, for every officer. There are also those whose hilts are embroidered with ornaments in various ways. Mustafa Kemal's sword is one of them. It shimmers and a brocade cord with a brocade cap is entwined around the hilt of the sword. The thumb of the right hand was inserted between the buttons on the right row of the jacket and the elbow was broken. The left hand is at the back, but the body is still in a state of alert. These cords are passed over the shoulder to take the right arm in and hooked under the chest of the jacket and up. Inflorescences with yellow metal parts at the ends dangle on the chest. On the sleeves, there are threads with the captain's mark and five bright buttons parallel to them. Finally the sword. He is a sword that looks like a human, superhuman miraculous, divine being, as inaccessible as a dream, as precious as the world, for every officer. There are also those whose hilts are embroidered with ornaments in various ways. Mustafa Kemal's sword is one of them. It shimmers and a brocade cord with a brocade cap is entwined around the hilt of the sword. The thumb of the right hand was inserted between the buttons on the right row of the jacket and the elbow was broken. The left hand is at the back, but the body is still in a state of alert. These cords are passed over the shoulder to take the right arm in and hooked under the chest of the jacket and up. Inflorescences with yellow metal parts at the ends dangle on the chest. On the sleeves, there are threads with the captain's mark and five bright buttons parallel to them. Finally the sword. He is a sword that looks like a human, superhuman miraculous, divine being, as inaccessible as a dream, as precious as the world, for every officer. There are also those whose hilts are embroidered with ornaments in various ways. Mustafa Kemal's sword is one of them. It shimmers and a brocade cord with a brocade cap is entwined around the hilt of the sword. The thumb of the right hand was inserted between the buttons on the right row of the jacket and the elbow was broken. The left hand is at the back, but the body is still in a state of alert.

With the young and beautiful person in this picture, the Ottoman Army will determine a new destiny."

Source: A A M Atatürk’ün Yetişmesi Ve Öğretmenleri, Cemil Sönmez, 2004, ISBN: 975-16-1743-X. Sayfa: 201-202

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Staff Captain Mustafa Kemal, a graduate of the Military Academy. (11.01.1905)