Kemal Ataturk, who later became the first president of the Republic of Turkey, is said to have been one of his students when he was teaching at the military academy.
彼が士官学校で教鞭をとった際、その教えを受けた生徒の中には、後にトルコ共和国の初代大統領となったケマル・アタテュルクもいたとされる。