Bekir Sami Günsav (1879 in Bandırma – 1934 in Istanbul) was a Turkish career officer, who served in the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army.
He was born in the village of Haydar in the district of Bandırma to father Hasan Bey and mother Ayşe Hanım.
Hasan Bey was a member of a Circassian family which moved from Circassia in the North Caucasus to northwestern Anatolia.
[2] He fought the first stage of the Turkish War of Independence as the commander of 56th Division.
Muhittin Ünal), Miralay Bekir Sami Günsav'ın Kurtuluş Savaşı Anıları, Cem Yayınevi, 2002, ISBN 975-406-510-1.