Career
His first duty in the battlefield was to collect the corpses of fallen soldiers with his cart. He died on 25 March 2007 in Konya, where he was hospitalized in Meram State Hospital three days before due to kidney and hearth failure. After his death, only two veterans of the War of Independence, Yakup Satar and Mustafa Şekip Birgöl remained alive in Turkey.
His memories from the War of Independence and his daily life along with the of two other veterans, Ömer Küyük and Yakup Satar, are depicted in the documentary film Son Buluşma (2007) (English: The Last Meeting) by Nesli Çölgeçen.
