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Also Known As Jaʿfar Pasha • Jaʿfar Pasha ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd ar-Raḥman al-ʿAskarī
Born 1887 • Baghdad • Ottoman Empire
Died October 30, 1936 (aged 49) • Baghdad
Role In World War I
Kemal Atatürk
Kemal Atatürk
president of Turkey
Faisal I
Faisal I
king of Iraq
Enver Paşa
Enver Paşa
Ottoman general
İsmet İnönü
president of Turkey
Abdullah I of Jordan
Abdullah I
king of Jordan
Fevzi Çakmak
Turkish statesman
Mehmed V
Mehmed V
Ottoman sultan
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
prime minister of United Kingdom
Aleksandr Kerensky
Aleksandr Kerensky
prime minister of Russia
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Hussein ibn Ali
king of Hejaz
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov
Russian general and statesman
Aleksey Andreyevich Polivanov
Russian general
Sir Samuel Hughes.
Sir Samuel Hughes
Canadian politician, educator, and statesman
David George Hogarth
David George Hogarth
British archaeologist
Badr Khānī Jāladat
leader of Kurds
Newton D. Baker, 1915
Newton D. Baker
American politician
Sir Charles Monro
British army officer
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
president of United States

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