Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal)

This article is about the Ottoman marshal. For other people of the same name, see Mehmed Ali Pasha.
In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Mehmed Ali, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name.
Mushir
Mehmed Ali
Pasha
Born
Ludwig Karl Friedrich Detroit

(1827-11-18)November 18, 1827
Magdeburg, Prussia (modern Germany)
DiedSeptember 7, 1878(1878-09-07) (aged 50)
Gjakova, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern Kosovo)
NationalityPrussian, Ottoman
Occupation(s)Marshal, Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army
Known forDelegate of the Ottoman Empire at the 1878 Congress of Berlin

Mehmed Ali Pasha (November 18, 1827[1] – September 7, 1878[2]) was a Prussian-born Ottoman career officer and marshal. He was the grandfather of the Turkish statesman Ali Fuat Cebesoy, and the great-grandfather of famous poets Nâzım Hikmet and Oktay Rıfat Horozcu and the socialist activist, lawyer, and athlete Mehmet Ali Aybar.

  1. ^ Latif Çelik, Türkische Spuren in Deutschland, Logophon Verlag GmbH, 2008, p. 188.
  2. ^ Osman Selim Kocahanoğlu, "Bir Osmanlı Ailesi ve Ali Fuad Cebesoy", Ali Fuat Cebesoy'un Arşivinden Askeri ve Siyasi Belgeler, Temel Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005, ISBN 975-410-092-6, p. 13. (in Turkish)