Hamdi Pasha
Kurdish politician
About Hamdi Pasha
Hamdi Pasha was a Turkish.
Ahmed Hamdi Pasha was a Kurdish Ottoman minister of the Marine, Secretary General of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan from 1918-1920 and a General officer of the Ottoman Army.
A graduate of the Ottoman Military College, Hamdi was in continuous contact with Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet regarding the memorandums of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan including the prospect of an independent Kurdistan as a barrier to Bolshevik progression into Mesopotamia.
During the Turkish War of Independence, Hamdi went into exile to Greece and never returned, even after being offered amnesty and permission to return. He was also known as Hamdi the ostentatious.
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Kurdish politician
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Hamdi Pasha was Turkish.
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