Nemrud Mustafa Paşa

Mustafa Yamulki (25 January 1866 – 25 May 1936), also known as "Nemrud" Mustafa Pasha, was an Ottoman-Kurdish military officer, chairman of the Ottoman military court, minister for education in the Kingdom of Kurdistan and a journalist. Mustafa was born in the city of Sulaimaniyah which was then in the Mosul Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

Early life Mustafa was born into an old landowning Kurdish family from Sulaymaniyah. Mustafa attended the Ottoman Military Academy at Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). He was from the powerful Bilbaz Kurdish tribe.

Political career After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, he was appointed the head of the Turkish courts-martial on 18 April 1920. As chairman of the Court, which was also called the "war tribunal of Nemrut Mustafa", he condemned Mustafa Kemal to death in absentia along with other of his associates. The warrant was also signed by Ali Kemal, Damad Ferid and the Sultan Vahdettin. Mustafa also sentenced Ebubekir Hazim (Tepeyran), the Minister of the Interior for aiding the Turkish nationalists. He was dismissed from this office in June.

Mustafa stated, Later, Mustafa was arrested and sentenced to 7 months in prison. However, he was pardoned by Sultan Mehmed VI in February 1921.

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