 In 1911, he was killed by Ottoman security forces during a fight and decapitated by his own men in order to prevent the identification of the body.Until the year 1948 his body was on the mountain where he was killed; his younger daughter Hatice Akkas brought his body to the graveside Ödemis Kayaköy where her family has a glebe.There are stories about him that he killed more than 1000 people.