Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal)

This article is about the Ottoman marshal. For other people of the same name, see Mehmed Ali Pasha.

Mehmed Ali Pasha

Müşir Mehmed Ali Pasha (November 18, 1827^[1] – September 7, 1878^[2]) was a German-born Ottoman soldier.

Mehemet Ali was born in Brandenburg an der Havel, Prussia, as Ludwig Karl Friedrich Detroit (also known as Carl Detroy), but left home when young, traveled to the Ottoman Empire and embraced Islam. There, in 1846, Aali Pasha, later Grand Vizier, sent him to a military school. He received a commission in the Ottoman army in 1853 and fought against Russia in the Crimean War. He was made a brigadier general and Pasha in 1865.

Painting of the Congress of Berlin by Anton von Werner (far right: Mehmed Ali Pasha)

In the 1877-1878 war against Russia, Mehemet Ali led the Turkish army in Bulgaria, before being superseded by Suleiman Pasha. Later in 1878 he was a participant at the Congress of Berlin. After being sent to Albania, he was killed by insurgents in Đakovica, Kosovo killed on September 7, 1878 in Đakovica (Kosovo) by Albanian insurgents who were not satisfied with results of Berlin Congress.^[3][4][2]

He is the grandfather of Ali Fuat Cebesoy, and the great-grandfather of Nâzım Hikmet, Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Mehmet Ali Aybar.

Sources

1. ^ Latif Çelik, Türkische Spuren in Deutschland, Logophon Verlag GmbH, 2008, p. 188.
2. ^ ^{a b} Osman Selim Kocahanoğlu, "Bir Osmanlı Ailesi ve Ali Fuad Cebesoy", Ali Fuat Cebesoy'un Arşivinden Askeri ve Siyasi Belgeler, Temel Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005, ISBN 975-410-092-6, p. 13. (Turkish)
3. ^ Ayfer Özçelik, Ali Fuad Cepesoy, Akçağ Yayınları, 1993, ISBN 975-338-006-2, p. 2. (Turkish)
4. ^ Halil Sedes, 1876-1878 Osmanlı-Rus Savaşları Bosna Hersek ve Bulgaristan İhtilalleri, Çituri Biraderler, İstanbul, 1946, p. 180. (Turkish)

Family tree

Sırp Ömer Lütfi Mihajlo Latas

Çerkes Hâfız

Macar Ali

Mustafa Celaleddin Konstanty Borzęcki

Saffet

Mehmed Ali

Ayşe Sıdıka

Kürt Hafize

Kamil

Tahir

Hüseyin Hüsnü

Hayriye

Mehmet Nazım

Macar Ali Rıfat

Hasan Enver

Leyla

Mehmet Ali Gerede

Eleanor Louisa Bendon

Zekiye Hatice

İsmail Fazıl

Adviye

Tevfik

Rahmi Arslan

Nimet

Muhsin

Tahsin

Hikmet

Celile

Samih Rıfat

Münevver

Mustafa Celalettin

Mehmet Ali

Sara

Leyla Makbule

Mehmet Ali Cebesoy

Ali Fuat Cebesoy

Alpaslan

Mehmet Ali Aybar

Nazım Hikmet Ran

Zeynep Menemencioğlu

Oktay Rıfat Horozcu

İsmail Fazıl Cebesoy

Ayşe Cebesoy Sarıalp

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Name	Ali, Mehemet
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Date of birth	November 18, 1827
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Date of death	September 7, 1878
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