Infantry Machine-Gun Captain Nuri Efendi was sent to Libya on a Greek ship with Major Jafar al-Askari Bey and 10,000 pieces of gold.

[1] In 1917, in an attempt to organize the efforts which was dispersed by the British, the Ottoman General Staff established the "Africa Groups Command" (Afrika Grupları Komutanlığı), of which the primary objective was the coastal regions of Libya.

He was promoted to Mirliva Fahri (honorary) Ferik and gave the mission to form and command volunteer based the Islamic Army of the Caucasus.

[3][4] At the end of the war, Nuri was arrested by British troops and held in detention in Batum, awaiting trial for wartime crimes.

Killigil established contact with Franz von Papen, the Nazi ambassador in Ankara in 1941 in order to win German support for the Pan-Turkic cause.