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Esat Pasha, the commander of the 3rd Turkish Corps and some of his officers SOURCE
Esat Pasha, the commander of the 3rd Turkish Corps, responsible for the northern area of the Gallipoli campaign which included the Anzac area, sitting at a table surrounded by some of his officers. The Allied commanders, to their cost, greatly underestimated the qualities of both ordinary Turkish soldiers and their leaders in 1915.
Hans Kannengiesser, a German officer who served with the German Military Mission at Gallipoli, wrote of Esat: "...I always had complete confidence … in his sustained and real kindness, his quick grasp of proposals, which, after calm, careful consideration, resulted in clear decisions..."
[Hans Kannengiesser, The Campaign in Gallipoli, London, no date, p 85]
Abdul The Turk, as drawn by Ted Colles for The Anzac Book, 1915.
Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the men of Anzac
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