Abdullah Pasha or Abdullah Kölemen (; 1846–1937) was an Ottoman Turkish general in the

First Balkan War The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Kingdom of Serbia, Serbia, Kingdom of Greece, Greece and Kingdom of Montenegro, Montenegro) agai ...

, notable as the Ottoman commander in the Battle of Kirk Kilisse in 1912, the Battle of Lule Burgas, and the Battle of Adrianople (1913) in which the Ottoman forces were defeated by the

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."Nazim Pasha Killed" - The Evening Independent
/ref> He was the Minister of War () of the Ottoman Empire for 38 days between 11 November and 19 December 1918 in the cabinet of Ahmet Tevfik Pasha. He later resigned from the cabinet and joined the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

where he fought against the Greeks in Smyrna. He died in 1937 in

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"National Scapegoat" - The Montreal Gazette

"Commander's Plight" - The Montreal Gazette

"The War in Egypt" - Nelson Evening Mail
1846 births 1937 deaths People from Trabzon Ottoman Military Academy alumni Ottoman Military College alumni Ottoman Army generals Pashas Ottoman military personnel of the Balkan Wars Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of Vasa {{Ottoman-bio-stub