Abdur Rahman Peshawari

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Abdur Rahman. There is no family name.
Abdur Rahman Peshawari
Turkish: Abdurrahman Peşaveri
Urdu: عبد الرحمن پشاوری
Born
Abdur Rahman Samdani Peshawari[1]

1886 (1886)
Peshawar, Punjab Province, British India
(later the North-West Frontier Province and now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan)
Died1925(1925-00-00) (aged 38–39)
Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey
Cause of deathAssassination (Gunshot wound)[2]
NationalityBritish Indian
Turkish
Other namesPeşaverli Abdurrahman Bey[1]
Alma materMuhammadan Anglo-Oriental College
Occupations
  • Soldier
  • medic
  • journalist
  • diplomat
Years active1912–1925
FatherHaji Ghulam Samdani
RelativesMian Abdul Aziz (brother)
Mohammed Yahya (brother)
Mohammad Yunus (brother)
Military service
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
Service/branchOttoman Army
Years of service1913–1918
Battles/warsWorld War I
Turkish War of Independence
1st Turkish Ambassador to Afghanistan
In office
1920–1922
Prime MinisterMustafa Kemal Atatürk
Preceded byPost created[1]
Succeeded byFakhri Pasha

Abdur Rahman Peshawari (Turkish: Abdurrahman Peşaveri; Urdu: عبدالرحمن پشاوری;[a]‎ 1886–1925), also known as Abdurrahman Bey[3] (Turkish: Peşaverli Abdurrahman Bey), was a Turkish soldier, journalist and diplomat who was born in Peshawar in British India (now Pakistan).[2]

Born into a wealthy family of Kashmiri–Pashtun heritage,[4] he completed his schooling in Peshawar and attended the prestigious Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh. A Muslim nationalist, Peshawari left his education and journeyed to Ottoman Turkey in 1912 among a group of volunteer medics from British India to aid Ottoman forces in the Balkan War. At the end of the war, he chose to stay behind in Turkey and joined the Ottoman Army, earning a distinguished military career participating in the First World War. He also briefly worked as a journalist for Anadolu Agency. In 1920, he was appointed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as Turkey's first envoy to Afghanistan.[5]

In 1925, he was the target of an assassination attempt in Istanbul in what is believed to be a case of mistaken identity, and died of gunshot wounds a month later in a hospital.[2]

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  4. ^ Aslam, MJ (4 March 2022). "Samdanis': Peshawar, Delhi, Lahore, Turkey". Kashmir Life. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Indian Muslim hero in Turkey's liberation war". 7 May 2014. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018. Peshawari served the nascent Turkish Republic, appointed by Ataturk as ambassador to Afghanistan.


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