Salih Bozok, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Salih Bozok

Turkish army officer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1881

Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Date of Death: 25-Apr-1941

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Salih Bozok (1881 – April 25, 1941) was an officer of the Ottoman Army, later the Turkish Army and a politician of the Republic of Turkey.
He was the chief aide-de-camp of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), the founder of modern Turkey.Bozok was a close childhood and lifelong friend of Atatürk, both having been born in 1881 in Salonica and having attended the Monastir Military High School together.
On November 10, 1938, upon witnessing the dead body of Atatürk in the latter's bedroom of Dolmabahçe Palace, a distraught and stunned Bozok stepped outside and shot himself through the chest with a pistol.
However, the bullet narrowly missed his heart, and Bozok did not succumb to his fatal wound until April 1941. Bozok's life and friendship with Atatürk was depicted in the successful 2010 Turkish film Veda.