Enver Pasha
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İsmâil Enver Pasha was a Turkish military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who served as the Ottoman Empire's Minister of War from 1914 to 1918. Along with Talaat and Djemal, he was
Enver Bey in 1911
Enver (left) with his father, Ahmed Bey (center), and half-brother Nuri Pasha (later Nuri Killigil; right)
Enver Pasha (then Enver Bey) depicted on a Young Turks flyer with the slogan Long live the fatherland, long live the nation, long live liberty written in Ottoman Turkish and French
Postcard of Mehmed V flanked by Niyazi Bey (left) and Enver Bey (right)
Battle of Sarikamish
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The Battle of Sarikamish was an engagement between the Russian and Ottoman Empires during World War I. It took place from 22 December 1914, to 17 January 1915, as part of the Caucasus campaign.
Enver Pasha
…formation of an alliance with Germany, and was instrumental in the Ottoman entry into World War I. Enver led a disastrous attack on Russian forces in the Battle of Sarikamish, after which he blamed Armenians for his defeat. Following defeat in World War I, Enver, along with other leading Unionists, escaped the Ottoman Empire…
Russian trenches in the forests of Sarikamish
Ottoman machinegun troops at Sarikamish in January 1915
The bodies of the Turks
Russians stand over the bodies of the defeated Turks