Ismail Enver Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: اسماعیل انور پاشا; Turkish: İsmail Enver Paşa; 22 November 1881 – 4 August 1922), commonly known as Enver Pasha, was an Ottoman military officer and a leader of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. He was the main leader of the Ottoman Empire in both Balkan Wars and World War I. Throughout his career, he was known by increasingly elevated titles as he rose through military ranks, including Enver Efendi (انور افندي), Enver Bey (انور بك), and finally Enver Pasha, Pasha being the epithet Ottoman military officers gained after they were promoted to the rank of Mirliva. After the 1913 Ottoman coup détat, Enver Pasha became the Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire, forming one-third of the triumvirate known as the Three Pashas (along with Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha) that held de facto rule over the Empire from 1913 until the end of World War I in 1918. As war minister and de facto Commander-in-Chief (despite only being the de jure Deputy Commander-in-Chief, as the Sultan formally held the title), Enver Pasha was considered to be the most powerful figure of the government of the Ottoman Empire. He made the decision to enter the Empire into World War I, on the side of Germany. Along with Talaat and Djemal, he was one of the principal perpetrators of the Armenian Tehcir. Prior to World War I, he was hailed at home as the hero of the revolution, and Europeans often spoke of Ottoman Turkey as Enverland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Pasha
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