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Enver Pasha
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Ah, my brave Arabs! If I could only gather them in from all their desert ways, and arm them properly... But I fear it cannot be.
— Quoted in "The American Review of Reviews" - Page 184 - by Albert Shaw – 1915.
Enver Pasha
Ottoman politician and general (1881–1922)
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Lived 1881–1922, aged 41Turkey
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An Ottoman military officer who helped topple a sultan and restore parliamentary rule in 1908, only to become part of a dictatorial triumvirate that orchestrated the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides during World War I — killing between 800,000 and 1,500,000 Armenians alone.
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İsmail Enver joined the Committee of Union and Progress while stationed in Ottoman Macedonia and became a key leader of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, hailed as "hero of the revolution" for reestablishing constitutional democracy. A series of crises left him disillusioned with liberal Ottomanism, and after the 1913 coup brought the CUP directly to power, he became War Minister and de facto Commander-in-Chief. He forged an alliance with Germany and brought the Ottoman Empire into World War I, then led a disastrous attack at the Battle of Sarikamish and blamed Armenians for the defeat. Along wi…
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Enver Pasha
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The plans of all of the powers have always been entirely selfish as far as Turkey was concerned.
— Quoted in "The American Review of Reviews" - Page 184 - by Albert Shaw – 1915.
Enver Pasha
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Real Turkish unification is my dearest wish, and any international political arrangement which will leave me a free hand to work for that, I will subscribe to.
— Quoted in "The American Review of Reviews" - Page 184 - by Albert Shaw – 1915.
Enver Pasha
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We are taking care of our troops today, hence their loyalty. Formerly a rifle was given to a man and he had to shift for himself.
— Quoted in "The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts from the American Press, 1915-1922" - Page 7 - by Richard Diran Kloian - History – 1985.
Enver Pasha
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The transformation of the Islamic world into one of revolution, as His Majesty has desired, had been in preparation for some time and had now been put into action.
— August 19, 1914. Quoted in "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility" - by Taner Akcam - History -
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