Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal)

Mehmed Ali
Born
Ludwig Karl Friedrich Detroit

(1827-11-18)November 18, 1827
DiedSeptember 7, 1878(1878-09-07) (aged 50)
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)