Vecihi Hürkuş
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vecihi-h-rku-161-1231971
title:
Vecihi Hürkuş
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Vecihi Hürkuş was a Turkish fighter pilot, aviation engineer and aviation pioneer. He built Turkey's first aircraft, the Vecihi K-VI, and founded the first civil flight school of the nation. Born in Istanbul, Hürkuş graduated from the Tophane Art School and later joined the Ottoman Army in the Balkan Wars in 1912. Upon his return from the wars, he became the commander of a prisoner-of-war camp in Beykoz. In 1914, he was sent to Baghdad as a mechanic in the Mesopotamia campaign. He was sent back
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Turkish aviator (1896–1969)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vecihi_H%C3%BCrku%C5%9F
date created:
2007-03-31T17:31:38Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T02:05:10Z
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