Ismail Enver Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: ??????? ???? ?????; Turkish: Ismail Enver Pasa; 22 November 1881 β 4 August 1922) was an Ottoman military officer and a leader of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution.
He became the main leader of the Ottoman Empire in both the Balkan Wars (1912β13) and in World War I (1914β18).
As war minister and de facto Commander-in-Chief (despite his role as the de jure Deputy Commander-in-Chief, as the Sultan formally held the title), Enver Pasha was the most powerful figure of the government of the Ottoman Empire.
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Along with Talaat and Djemal, he was one of the principal perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide of the Assyrian Genocide and of the Greek Genocide and thus is held responsible for the death of between 800,000 and 1,800,000 Armenians, 300,000 Assyrians and 350,000 Greeks.
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".