Enver Paşa Tomb
About the Person:
- Enver Paşa is one of the three Paşas (Talat, Cemal, Enver) who were influential in the last period of the Ottoman Empire.
- He was one of the important actors of the 1908 Revolution of Independence and played a role in the declaration of the Second Constitutional Monarchy. He took on active duties in the Tripoli and Balkan Wars, and after the Bab-ı Ali Raid in 1913, he became the Minister of War and the head of the Ottoman army.
- He was the main actor who ensured that the Ottoman Empire entered the war on the side of Germany in World War I. Although he is remembered for major disasters such as the Sarıkamış Operation, he made efforts to modernize the army.
- After the war, he escaped abroad; he participated in the Turkestan independence struggle in Russia and Central Asia, and lost his life while fighting with Bolshevik forces in Tajikistan in 1922.
About the Tomb:
Construction Year: 1996
Ordered by: Turkish Republic
Architect: Muzaffer Bey
Prominent Features:
- A simple sarcophagus tomb emphasizing martyrdom.
- “Martyr Ismail Enver Paşa” are written on the tombstone .
- He is located at the back of the Monument of Freedom, together with Talat and Cemal Paşa, and other members of the Committee of Union and Progress.
- The cemetery complex is a reflection of both the late Ottoman politics and the Republican era politics of remembrance.
