İbrahim Tali Öngören

He attended the medical academy of the Ottoman military and during the Turco-Italian war he was deployed to Tripolitania where he met Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) in 1911.

[2] He became an adherent to the Kemalist ideology, was one of the military officers who supported Mustafa Kemal from the start of the Turkish War of Independence[3] and accompanied Atatürk on his journey to Samsun in 1919.

[2] At the Congress of the Peoples of the East of the Communist International in Baku in 1920, he represented a Kemalist delegation which attempted to raise support for their fight against the Allied forces occupying Istanbul.

[9] As an Inspector General, he had wide-ranging authority in the eastern provinces and was able to deport and resettle people he thought would not fit in the area according to the policies outlined of the Report for Reform on the East.

[3] He presented his report about the journey to the Ministry of the Interior, which blamed the Jews of being involved in labor unions and also exploiting the Turkish population in the region.

[The Jews] constitute this secret danger and may perhaps, through their workers' clubs, seek to establish communist nuclei in our country; that is why it is an absolute necessity [...] to finally and in the most radical way solve the [Jewish] problem.