He was born in
Shkodra,
Ottoman Empire, as the son of
Tahir Pasha Bibezić, who was a
vali of
Van,
Bitlis, and
Mosul. In 1914, as the
Kaymakam of the
Sanjak of Hakkari, Djevdet worked closely together with the
Ottoman Special Organization to coordinate the defense against the Russians and possible offensives against the region around
Lake Urmia. He wrote to
Talaat Pasha that
Urmia could have been captured with some more support of his superiors. He succeeded
Hasan Tahsin Bey as Governor of the
Vilayet of Van in 1914. As such, he established an alliance with the local
Kurdish chieftain
Simko Shikak and ordered a massacre of about 800
Assyrians in
Salmas in March 1915. In July 1915, he led the massacre of the 15,000 Armenians of
Bitlis. Djevdet was a leader of the
Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the brother-in-law of
Enver Pasha.'''' After the end of
World War I and the subsequent
Turkish War of Independence, he served as a commander of the
Turkish Air Force. As commander of the air force, he played an important role in crushing the
Ararat rebellion by
Kurdish rebels in 1930 and ordered the air force to bombard Kurdish rebel positions around
Mount Ararat eventually forcing the capitulation of the Kurdish fighters. The air assault campaign also resulted in the indiscriminate aerial bombarding of Kurdish civilians resulting in entire villages reportedly being wiped out according to the
New York Times newspaper. He died in
Istanbul on 15 January 1955. ==In popular culture==