In 1911, following a series of exams, Evrensev and Yusuf Kenan Bey were selected to become the first pilots of the Ottoman Army.

They were sent to the Blériot Aéronautique flight school on 9 July and completed their training in February and March 1912, respectively.

During the opening day of the school on 26 April, Evrensev made his first flight as a certified pilot, becoming the first Turk to do so.

After suffering from health problems such as tuberculosis originating in the poor conditions in the Russian camp, Evrensev died on 9 April 1951.

[1] After finishing his primary education in Istanbul,[2] he attended the Galatasaray High School in 1887 for ten years and switched to the Turkish Military Academy in 1897.

Following the start of the Second Constitutional Era in 1908, Evrensev was pardoned and returned to the cavalry in Istanbul as the commander of the fifth company in the first regiment.

[6][7] He spent the first ten years in the military as a regular lieutenant in several missions and was later promoted to a captain.

Ten took the final one;[9] Evrensev and Senior Lieutenant Yusuf Kenan Bey got the two highest scores, 92 and 91, respectively.

The army initially wanted to send them to Germany, but due to France having more advanced technology at the time and lower costs, they were sent to the flight school of Blériot Aéronautique on 9 July.

[11] In March, Evrensev and Kenan Bey were requested to return to Istanbul by a lieutenant colonel to take delivery of these aircraft, which they did on 20 April.

On the morning of 26 April, Bell flew several times in front of high-ranking Ottoman officers, including a flight over the Sea of Marmara.

[14] The Balkan Wars were the first time the Ottoman Army used aircraft in combat, with Evrensev and his crew conducting many reconnaissance flights over Thrace.

[20] When the group was working on returning some of its equipment to the Ottoman Empire, Evrensev said that he could travel across the Black Sea aboard a taka if he was allowed to go to Crimea.

[24] The group toured Great Britain from March to May, during which Evrensev also met a British general that he had known from his time at the flight school in France.

[25] He continued to be an inspector and instructor in the Air Force in İzmir until his retirement from the military on 18 November 1925 as a major.

[22] Evrensev's health worsened in the final ten years of his life, mainly due to the poor conditions he was subjected to in the Siberian camp.

In September 1947, he was treated at a military hospital due to symptoms such as fatigue and coughing, and was put on leave for three months.