Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal)

Mushir

Mehmed Ali

Pasha
Mushir; Mehmed Ali; Pasha
	Mehmed Ali Pasha, c. 1878
Birth name	Ludwig Karl Friedrich Detroit
Born	November 18, 1827; Magdeburg, Prussia (modern Germany)
Died	September 7, 1878 (aged 50); Gjakova, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern Kosovo)
Rank	Marshal; Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army
Known for	Delegate of the Ottoman Empire at the 1878 Congress of Berlin
Battles / wars	Crimean War; Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) Battle of Katselovo; Battle of Ablanovo; ; Attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha †;

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.

^ Latif Çelik, Türkische Spuren in Deutschland, Logophon Verlag GmbH, 2008, p. 188.
^ 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)