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| Keywords: Jemal Pacha and Musir Ahmet Izzet Pasha.jpg Jemal Pacha rear seat left side of car with beard and Musir Field Marshal Ahmet Izzet Pasha rear seat right side of car seated in the back seat of a motor car possibly leaving Damascus prior to the entry of the British The soldier in the front passenger seat is Jemal Pacha's Circassian bodyguard Jemal or Djemal Ahmet Cemal Pasa was one of three Pashas the others being Enver and Talat who ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to the end of the First World War Jemal was in charge of the Ottoman Army in Egypt With the defeat of the Empire in 1918 he along with seven other leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress CUP fled to Germany then Switzerland In his absence he was charged with persecuting Arab subjects of the Ottoman Empire and was found guilty in absentia He was assassinated by an Armenia n in Tbilisi on 21 July 1922 due to his imvolvement in the Armenian genocide Ahmed Izzet Pasha born in 1864 had been commander on the Caucasus front He was appointed Grand Vizir replacing Enver and Talat when the new Sultan Mehmet VI came to the throne on 3 July 1918 He negotiated the Armistice which ended the war in the Middle East and took a major role in the Turkish War of Independence He took the family name Furgac following the abolition of the Caliphate He died in 1937 This is one of a series of photographs probably taken by a Turkish official photographer collected by 2120 Private Pte Murtie Cecil Carlian 14th Light Horse P03092 004 ¢Carlian Murtie Cecil Photographer ; ¢Unknown Photographer Credit line Donor J Charnock 1917 04 PD-Australia People associated with World War I Chokha with fur hat Ahmed Izzet Pasha Djemal Pasha Circassians in Syria Circassians in Syria with chokha History of Damascus 1917 in the Ottoman Empire 1917 in Syria Black and white photographs Fur fashion in 1917 | ||||
