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Enver Pasha (1881-1922) served in the dual capacity of War Minister and Ottoman Commander-in-Chief during World War One, and was instrumental in bringing Turkey into the war on the side of the Central Powers.
Born on 22 November 1881 in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) Enver was commissioned into the Turkish army at a young age. Undergoing part of his training in Germany he absorbed (and was impressed with) much of its culture, particularly with regard to military training. He consequently determined upon various means of improving the efficiency of the Ottoman armed forces along German lines.
In 1908 Enver was one of three leaders of the so-called 'Young Turk' movement that rebelled against Sultan Abdul Hamid, joining General Mahmud Sevket's 'Army of Deliverance' in marching upon Constantinople.
From 1909-11 he served as military attaché to Berlin. In the latter year, with Turkey at war with Italy, Enver organised Ottoman resistance in Libya. The following year (1912) he was appointed Governor of Banghazi.
1913 saw Enver lead the coup d'etat of 23 January organised by the Committee of Union and Progress, bringing full power to the Young Turks. With the success of this m
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Michael A. Reynolds
Associate Professor; Co-Director of the Program on History and the Practice of Diplomacy, Princeton University
Michael A. Reynolds is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Co-Director of the Program on History and the Practice of Diplomacy at Princeton University. He is author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918, a recipient of the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize, an American Library Association outstanding tile, and a Financial Times summer reading list selection. His commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, National Interest, and War on the Rocks among other publication. He has held fellowships at Harvard University’s WCFIA and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL and most recently was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. He is completing a biography of the Young Turk triumvir and Minister of War Enver Pasha.
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