Mehmet Kengerli

Mehmet Kengerli (1 October 1914 - 17 September 2006) was the head of the Azerbaijan National Center for Immigrants and personal doctor of Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh. He became a member of the Young Azer Organization of the Musavat party at age 14. In 1939 he took part in the Winter War. Later, he was captured by the Germans in World War II and served as a military doctor in the Azerbaijani Legion.

Early life Mehmet Kengerli was born on January 10, 1914, in Shusha. Together with the medical battalion, he was captured by the Finns. A year later, in a prisoner exchange, he was returned to the Soviet army.

In 1942 he was captured by the Germans in World War II. After his capture, he worked as a military doctor in the Azerbaijani Legion. Kengerli lived in difficult conditions in Germany after World War II.

He moved to Turkey in 1952 and worked at the Azerbaijan National Center in Ankara and the Azerbaijan Cultural Association.