Mehmet Nuri Efendi

Mehmet Nuri Efendi (1885 – 7 April 1921) was an Ottoman mufti (Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law) of the town of Bilecik, and is known for his support to the Turkish national movement and subsequent assassination by the Greeks in 1921 during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22). A tomb was built for him in 1996. The Armenians were taken to the outskirts of the town and are killed between Sarkışla and Gemerek.

During the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22) he took an active role in the local Turkish national movement. In 1996 a tomb was built for him which is a site of local commemoration. He was married and had two children his family took the surname of Kırıkkanat (Broken wing).