Enver Pasha, Turkish Minister of War

Enver Pascha

Türkischer Kriegsminister

Turkish Minister of War

Nicola Perscheid, Berlin

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Monday, February 4, 1918

"On my return journey at the beginning of February I touched at headquarters at Kreuznach. There I learned to my surprise that the new chief of the Turkish general staff, General von Seekt, would shortly take over all establishments erected and administered by the military mission on the lines of communication. The Turkish headquarters thus was to exercise a direct and uniform influence on the entire supply of all armies. . . .

The position of the chief of the Turkish general staff was in many ways dependent upon Vicegeneralissimo Enver; that of the chief of the German military mission was more or less independent, insofar as, in spite of friction, the stipulations of the contract had been enforced. It was this kind of independence that made the mission so disliked by Enver."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from German General Otto Liman von Sanders' account of his return to Constantinople after a January visit to Belgium on the Western Front. With Interior Minister Mehmed Talaat Pasha and Minister of the Navy Ahmed Djemal Pasha, War Minister Ismail Enver Pasha ruled Turkey throughout the war. Starting in December 1913, six months before the war began and ten months before Turkey entered it, General Otto Liman von Sanders led a German mission to Turkey to reorganize and train its army.

Source

Five Years in Turkey by Liman von Sanders, page 194, publisher: The Battery Press with War and Peace Books, publication date: 1928 (originally)

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1918-02-04, 1918, February, Enver, Ismail Enver, Enver Pasha