
Bigalı Mehmet Çavuş was born in 1878 in the town of Filibe, Bulgaria, in the year 1294 of the Rumi calendar. His father’s name was Mustafa. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, due to massacres against Turks in the Balkans and increasing pressures, his family migrated to Anatolia and settled in Bahçeli Village, then known as İhsaniye, in the Biga district of Çanakkale. Mehmet Çavuş was an infant during this migration. The family continued their sericulture business from Bulgaria in Bahçeli
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Bigalı Mehmet Çavuş was born in 1878 in the town of Filibe, Bulgaria, according to the Rumi calendar (1294). His father’s name was Mustafa. During the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877–1878, due to massacres against Turks in the Balkans and increasing pressures, his family migrated to Anatolia and settled in Bahçeli Village (known at the time as İhsaniye), part of the Biga district of Çanakkale. Mehmet Çavuş was an infant during this migration. The family continued their sericulture business from Bulg
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