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Enver Pasha

1881–1922 · 20th century · Also known as Ismail Enver

Enver Pasha was an Ottoman officer and politician, a leader of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and of the Committee of Union and Progress. As war minister from 1914 he took the Ottoman Empire into the First World War on Germany's side and led the disastrous Sarikamish campaign. After the defeat he fled, and in 1921 he joined the Basmachi rebels in Central Asia, dying in battle against the Red Army in eastern Bukhara in 1922.

Enver Pasha
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Bukharan People's Soviet Republic

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