Enver Pasha - watercolour cartoon card
I believe it is now my turn!. An original watercolour depicting Enver Pasha (1881-1922), pro-German, pan-Turkist revolutionary. A member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (aYoung Turk') military reform movement which restored the 1876 Consitution in 1908 and deposed Sultan Abdulhamid II the following year, Enver was military attache in Berlin before leading a radical coup in Albania in 1913. One of the ruling triumvirate in the ensuing CUP dictatorship, he led the recapture of Edirne in 1913, before involving Turkey in WW I
Picture No
10280088
Media ID
45658259
Size
3101px x 4704px
(2.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Original Watercolour
Date
1913





























