Edhem Pasha ( tr, Ethem Paşa; 1844–1909) was an
Ottoman field marshal and leading figure in the propagation of the Ottoman
military doctrine.
Life and career
Edhem was born to a
Greek Muslim
Greek Muslims, also known as Grecophone Muslims, are Muslims of Greek ethnic origin whose adoption of Islam (and often the Turkish language and identity) dates to the period of Ottoman rule in the southern Balkans. They consist primarily of th ...
family in
Trabzon
Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the B ...
in present-day
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. He was the deputy of
Gazi Osman Pasha during the
siege of Plevna in 1877. He was the leading commander of the Ottoman army that defeated the Greek army on the
Thessalian
Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thess ...
front during the
Greco-Turkish War (1897)
The Greco-Turkish War of 1897 or the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897 ( or ), also called the Thirty Days' War and known in Greece as the Black '97 (, ''Mauro '97'') or the Unfortunate War ( el, Ατυχής πόλεμος, Atychis polemos), was a w ...
, which would end in a decisive Turkish victory. Edhem Pasha was especially successful in the
Battle of Domokos on the front. He captured
Larissa and
Trikala
Trikala ( el, Τρίκαλα; rup, Trikolj) is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece, and the capital of the Trikala regional unit. The city straddles the Lithaios river, which is a tributary of Pineios. According to the Greek National Stati ...
, but other European states intervened in favor of Greece because of the danger that Turks again could once again capture the rest of the
Morea
The Morea ( el, Μορέας or ) was the name of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The name was used for the Byzantine province known as the Despotate of the Morea, by the Ottom ...
. As a result, the Greco-Turkish War resulted in a strategic stalemate despite the Turkish military victory on the field. Edhem Pasha died in Constantinople (modern-day
Istanbul
)
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) in 1909.
References
1844 births
1909 deaths
People from Trabzon
Ottoman military personnel of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Ottoman military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1897)
Field marshals of the Ottoman Empire
Pashas
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