Şahin Bey

[2][3] It is also claimed that he was actually born in the village Zilif (in modern-day al-Bab District, northwestern Syria) and belonged to the Turkmen Elbegli tribe.

Şahin Bey's return to the Western front would come after the Ottoman Empire entered the World War I on the side of the Central Powers.

When he returned in 1919 to his homeland, south-central Turkey, he became the representative of the Ottoman Army, with a duty to control the important road between Kilis and Gaziantep.

For this purpose, he attacked Charles Joseph Edouard Andréa's forces, a spearhead group of the actual army, that left Kilis to Aintab in the morning of 26 March 1920.

The combat started with the advance of the Turkish side, but turned into a defeat when the main French force arrived onto the battlefield.

[citation needed] Şahin Bey nevertheless fought against the advancing Andréa's troops and managed to stop them on Elmalı bridge.