Nazım Pasha

Turkey state institutions c. 1848–1913 ✕ Killed in a coup

Chief of Staff of the Ottoman army in the First Balkan War, killed in the Raid on the Sublime Porte in January 1913

A staunch supporter of the French offensive doctrine of his Saint-Cyr instructor Ferdinand Foch, he was governor of Baghdad from 1910, where his roads, dam and first modern school earned him the name "Midhat Pasha II". As Chief of Staff in the First Balkan War he abandoned Goltz Pasha's defensive doctrine for offensives on both fronts, but his underestimation of the Serbian army led to the complete failure of his plan. Minister of War at the time, he was shot by Yakub Cemil, a member of the Committee of Union and Progress, during the coup of 23 January 1913, the Raid on the Sublime Porte. A relative avenged him by assassinating the Unionist Grand Vizier Mahmud Shevket Pasha on 11 June 1913.

Also known as: Hüseyin Nazım Pasha · Nazim Pasha