[1][2][3] He joined the newly-established army of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in Ankara.
In the early period of the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923), he carried grain from various places of the country to the soldiers in the west front.
Following the Greek Summer Offensive in 1920, he was assigned to a military hospital in Kütahya.
After the retreat of the Greek troops, he received a horse, and became a cavalryman in the combat assault battalion of the 1st Division.
He lived nearly 25 years bedridden at Aydınlıkevler neighborhood of Selçuklu district in Konya Province, where was he was cared by his daughter Samiye Turan.