Kara Vâsıf Bey (1880 – December 5, 1931), later known as Mustafa Vasıf Karakol, was an officer of the Ottoman Army, and a politician of the Republic of Turkey.

[2] He traveled around the empire in early childhood due to his father civil service appointments.

[3] He was one of the founding and most active member of the Karakol Society, which was established as an underground resistance organization in reaction to occupation of Istanbul at the end of WWI.

After numerous military leaders moved to Anatolian hinterland to launch the War of Independence, he was the key link to them and represented Association for the Defence of National Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia.

He was arrested in 1926 with suspicion of participating in the attempt (İzmir plot) on life of Ataturk.