Kâzım Dirik (1881 in Bitola, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – July 3, 1941 in Edirne) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.

[2] In cooperation with the Peoples Houses, he encouraged the campaign which demanded from the population to only speak Turkish in 1934.

[3] After 1935, he also became the Inspector General of the Second Inspectorate-General in the Turkish western provinces and was involved in the Turkification and resettlement program of the Turkish Government.

[4][5] He presented the idea of the "Ideal Republican Village" (Turkish: İdeal Cumhuriyet Köyü).

[5][4] Media related to Kâzım Dirik at Wikimedia Commons