“The late Cevat Rıfat ATİLHAN, whom we had the honor of knowing closely, is the hero of an admirable scenario, both in action and thought, during the tumultuous downfall of the universal Ottoman Islamic State. As the ancients would put it, he was a ‘sahib-us seyfi vel kalem,’ meaning a personality who possessed both the sword and the pen.

I leave it to the reader's discretion to appreciate what great successes Cevat Rıfat ATİLHAN Bey, who wielded his sword for his homeland on every front from Galicia in Romania to the deserts of Palestine, must have achieved to rise from his start in military life as a lieutenant (mülâzım) to the rank of pasha (general) by the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

While performing these military services, the late Atilhan, who had the opportunity to grasp the secret enemy activities that paved the way for our downfall with all their intricacies, did not retreat into a corner of isolation after the Turkish-Greek War as many others did, but instead found himself in another struggle that was tougher and more influential for the future of the country. In this new struggle, which he engaged in with a pen as effective as his sharp sword and continued until the end of his life, Cevat Rıfat ATİLHAN Bey was so successful in exposing all the secret ambitions of the Jew, the eternal enemy of our religion and state, that it is impossible to imagine a conscious Muslim today who has not seen or read at least one of his works!”

KADİR MISIROĞLU