Yildirim Army Group
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The Yıldırım Army Group or Thunderbolt Army Group of the Ottoman Empire or Army Group F was an Army Group of the Ottoman Army during World War I. While being an Ottoman unit, it also contained the Ger
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as the last commander of the Yıldırım Army Group, with his adjutants, 1918.
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
Yildirim Army Group
…had also suggested that Liman von Sanders, who was responsible for the Dardanelle front, could now be moved to Levant also. Ottoman Minister of War, Enver Pasha was initially against the involvement of German allies in Baghdad. After the success of Halil Pasha at Siege of Kut, he did not want him to feel slighted…
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)