of 8 November, Hasan İzzet's German chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel FelixGuse, said to Hasan İzzet: "The best retreat is retreat after gaining success
exaggeration. The German chief of staff of the Ottoman Third Army, Colonel FelixGuse, complained that "The Turks knew only poorly their country, on top of
winter. Mahmut Kamil was in Istanbul, and his chief of staff, Colonel FelixGuse [tr], was in Germany. General Yudenich launched a major winter offensive
network in the Ottoman Empire and later helped manage the network in Turkey FelixGuse, German lieutenant colonel who commanded regiments in the Caucasian front