Djemal Pasha Biography
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Djemal Pasha

Ahmed Djemal (Ottoman Turkish: احمد جمال پاشا, romanized: Ahmed Cemâl Pasha; 6 May 1872 – 21 July 1922), also known as Djemal Pasha, was an Ottoman military leader and one of the Three Pashas that ruled the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Cemal was born in Mytilene, Lesbos. As an officer of the II Corps, he was stationed in Salonica where he developed political sympathies for the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) reformers . Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Djemal Pasha has received more than 560,389 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019) . Djemal Pasha is the 221st most popular military personnel (down from 181st in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Greece (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Greek Military Personnel.

Djemal Pasha was the Ottoman military commander of Syria and Palestine. He is most famous for his role in the Armenian Genocide.