Deli Fuad Pasha

Deli Fuad Pasha (Modern Turkish: Deli Fuat Paşa; 1835 – 17 April 1931) was an Ottoman marshal and ambassador, who participated in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).^[1][2] He was born in Cairo in 1835.^[1][3]

Deli Fuad Pasha
Born	1835 Cairo, Ottoman Empire
Died	1931 (aged 95–96) Istanbul, Turkey
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire
Service/branch	Ottoman Army
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Children	5

Fuad Pasha served as the ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Berlin between 1913 and 1915.^[4] He was a founding member of the Freedom and Accord Party.^[5]

His three sons, Said, Reşit and Halil, were killed in the battles between 1912 and 1915.^[2] His another son, Esat, was a diplomat and journalist.^[6] His youngest son, Hulusi Fuat Tugay, was a medical doctor and diplomat.^[4]

References

1. "Deli Fuat Paşa" (in Turkish). Biyografya. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
2. İskender Kardaşlar (21 April 2018). "3 Şehit babası bir kahraman: Müşir 'Deli' Fuad Paşa". Çanakkale Gündem (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
3. Elizabeth Bishop (2020). "Ghosts of Empire in Egypt". Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (148): 111–130. doi:10.4000/remmm.15260. S2CID 236856297.
4. Gurpinar, Dogan (2013). Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy: A Political, Social and Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 165. ISBN 978-0857734563.
5. Kansu, Aykut (2021). Politics in Post-Revolutionary Turkey, 1908-1913. BRILL. p. 287. ISBN 978-9004491823.
6. Şadan Karadeniz (1973). "Yakın tarihimizle ilgili bir belge: Esad Fuad Tugay'ın İngiltere Başbakanı Balfour'a yazdığı mektup". Belleten (in Turkish). 37 (148): 583–605.