Tevfik Bıyıklıoğlu

He was born in Çanakkale in 1891. He entered the Military Academy in 1905 and graduated in 1908 as an artillery officer and valedictorian of his class, and in 1914 he graduated from the Military Academy as valedictorian of his class.^[4]

In 1915, he was promoted to the rank of Staff and took part in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. in 1923, while he was a Staff Lieutenant Colonel in the First Branch of the General Staff, he was appointed as Deputy Chief Clerk on March 18, 1924. On May 1, 1924, he was appointed as the General Clerk of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey in his capacity as Military Chief Clerk.^[4]