Background
Süleyman Askerî was born to General Vehbi Pasha, who served as military staff at Edirne in 1898 and then in Anatolia, in 1884 in Prizren.
Süleyman Askerî was born to General Vehbi Pasha, who served as military staff at Edirne in 1898 and then in Anatolia, in 1884 in Prizren.
He gradıated from the Ottoman Military Academy in 1902 and graduated from the Ottoman Military College on November 5, 1905 as Distinguished Captain (Mümtaz Yüzbaşı ).
He was assigned to Monastir (present-day Bitola) under the command of the Third Army stationed at Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki). They had two daughters, Fatma and Dilek. He sheltered Mülâzim Atif Efendi (Atıf Kamçıl), who assassinated Shemsi Pasha in July 7, 1912, and participated in the Young Turk Revolution.
In 1909, he was promoted to the rank of Kolağası and appointed to the gendarmerie regiment in Baghdad.
In 1911, after the Kingdom of Italy invaded the vilayet of Tripoli (present-day Libya), he went there and participated in operations in Benghazi. In 1912, he took part in the Balkan Wars as the chief of staff of Trabzon Redif Division and then became the Chief of the General Staff of the provisional government (August 31, 1913 - October 25, 1913) established in Western Thrace.
On November 13, 1913, he was appointed to the chief of the Ottoman Special Organisation when it was officially formed.
