After briefly serving as War Minister in 1920, Fevzi left to join the dissident Grand National Assembly in Ankara as a Member of Parliament for Kozan.

He had succeeded İsmet İnönü as the Chief of General Staff in August 1921 and continued serving after the Turkish Republic was declared in 1923.

Mustafa Fevzi was born on 12 January 1876 in Cihangir (Istanbul, Ottoman Empire) His family is of Turkish origin.

In 1879 Ali Sırrı Bey was appointed to Black Sea Artillery Regiment (Karadeniz Topçu Alayı) at Rumeli Kavağı, and the family moved there.

He learned Arabic and Persian languages from his grandfather Hacı Bekir Efendi, who had studied in Egypt and Baghdad and was one of the prominent intelligentsia at the time.

[11] On 11 April 1899, he became the staff officer of 18th Regular Division under the command of Şemsi Pasha at Metroviça (present day Mitrovica) of the Third Army.

[12][13][14] On 3 July 1908, Senior Captain Ahmed Niyazi Bey stationed at Resne (present day: Resen), an ethnic Albanian, took to the hills with 200 soldiers and a number of civilians, and issued a manifesto which demanded the restoration of constitutional government.

On 11 February 1912, he was appointed to the member of the committee that was formed under the chairmanship of the Minister of the Interior Hacı Adil Bey with the decision about reform of Albania and three vilayet (Salonica, Monastir, Kosova).

9 May, he was appointed to a secretariat formed in the Sadaret and on 3 July, to the deputy commander of the 21st Infantry Division at Yakova (now Gjakova),[11] on 6 August, to the staff of the General Forces of Kosovo .

[16] But he wrote that he had put the idea of creating a six-corps army of one hundred thousand men operation on interior lines from the Monastir (present day: Bitola) area.

[20] Fevzi wrote: On the morning of June 6, 1329, Karadeniz, in late afternoon Gülcemal, left pier at Seman.

The cession of the part of our homeland, where our ancestors irrigated with their blood for centuries and many old and new martyrs were buried, brought unacceptable heartbreak and nostalgia to our hearts.

[10] He arrived at the Gallipoli Front on 13 July and command his corps in battles of Achi Baba (İkinci Kerevizdere Muharebesi) and Sari Bair.

On 8 August, his younger brother, the commander of the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 64th Regiment, Lieutenant Mehmed Nazif Efendi was killed in action in the Battle of Chunuk Bair.

[23] Erich von Falkenhayn gave Fevzi control of Beersheba and the eastern half of the Palestine Front on 28 October.

But Falkenhayn gave an alternate set of orders on the same day, giving command of all units on the Sinai Front to Kress von Kressenstein until the new command arrangements would become functional[24] On 15 February 1918, he wrote to Erich von Falkenhayn, serious problems with the inefficient lines of communication and the supply and recruiting zone proportionate with the strength and situation of the army.

Moreover, he mentioned that here were combat skills proficiency problems caused by the inability of his under-strength army to withdraw front-line units for training in the rear area.

On 3 November, he assigned to the task in Heyet-i Nasîha and on 31 December, he was appointed to the member of the Military Council (Askerî Şûra).

[15] After the resignation of Salih Pasha Cabinet, he went to Anatolia to participate in the national movement arriving at Ankara on 27 April 1920.

On 24 January 1921,[15] in addition to his other tasks, he became Prime Minister (Heyet-i Vekile Riyaseti)[28] and on 3 April, he was promoted to Birinci Ferik.

So even today[citation needed], an unspecified nickname Mareşal (Field Marshal) means Fevzi Çakmak.

[39] His family rejected an effort to exhume his body and effect a transfer to Turkish State Cemetery in Ankara.