Deli Fuad Pasha

Deli Fuad Pasha
Born1835
Cairo, Ottoman Empire
Died1931 (aged 95–96)
Istanbul, Turkey
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
Service / branch Ottoman Army
RankGeneral
Battles / warsRusso-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Children5

Deli Fuad Pasha (Modern Turkish: Deli Fuat Paşa; 1835 – 17 April 1931) was an Ottoman marshal and ambassador, who participated in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).[1][2] He was born in Cairo in 1835.[1][3]

Fuad Pasha served as the ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Berlin between 1913 and 1915.[4] He was a founding member of the Freedom and Accord Party.[5]

His three sons, Said, Reşit and Halil, were killed in the battles between 1912 and 1915.[2] His another son, Esat, was a diplomat and journalist.[6] His youngest son, Hulusi Fuat Tugay, was a medical doctor and diplomat.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Deli Fuat Paşa" (in Turkish). Biyografya. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b İskender Kardaşlar (21 April 2018). "3 Şehit babası bir kahraman: Müşir 'Deli' Fuad Paşa". Çanakkale Gündem (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. ^ Elizabeth Bishop (2020). "Ghosts of Empire in Egypt". Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (148): 111–130. doi:10.4000/remmm.15260. S2CID 236856297.
  4. ^ a b Gurpinar, Dogan (2013). Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy: A Political, Social and Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 165. ISBN 978-0857734563.
  5. ^ Kansu, Aykut (2021). Politics in Post-Revolutionary Turkey, 1908-1913. BRILL. p. 287. ISBN 978-9004491823.
  6. ^ Şadan Karadeniz (1973). "Yakın tarihimizle ilgili bir belge: Esad Fuad Tugay'ın İngiltere Başbakanı Balfour'a yazdığı mektup". Belleten (in Turkish). 37 (148): 583–605.