Enver Pasha

Enver Pasha was an Ottoman officer and revolutionary who served as the empire's Minister of War from 1914 to 1918 and, with Talaat and Djemal, was one of the Three Pashas who ruled it during the First World War. He rose through the Committee of Union and Progress and was a leader of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. As war minister and de facto commander in chief he brought the empire into the war alongside Germany and led a disastrous offensive against Russian forces at the Battle of Sarikamish. After the defeat he fled, was sentenced to death in absentia, and was killed in 1922 while leading the Basmachi Revolt against the Bolsheviks. He is also held responsible for the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian genocides, and his reputation in Turkey remains disputed.