Menemenli Tevfik Mustafa Pasha’s War Memoirs of the Danube Front During the Crimean War Cover Image

Menemenli Tevfik Mustafa Paşa’nın Kırım Harbi Tuna Cephesi Harp Hatıraları
Menemenli Tevfik Mustafa Pasha’s War Memoirs of the Danube Front During the Crimean War

Author(s): İsmet Sarıbal
Subject(s): Military history, Turkish Literature, The Ottoman Empire, Theory of Literature
Published by: Serkan YAZICI
Keywords: Menemenli Tevfik Mustafa Pasha; Crimean War; Memoir;

Summary/Abstract: The interest of Ottoman army officers to write military memoirs that being a modern literary genre, began with the Crimean War. The memoirs of Mustafa Zarif Pasha who commanded the Anatolian army during the Crimean War, were the known first military memoir, which written by an Ottoman officer in a modern sense. The memoirs of Major Osman Bey (Frederick Millingen), who served as the commander of Mustafa Pasha, the commander of the Batumi army and then fled to Russia, is another known memory of the Crimean War, which published in Russian. Tevfik Mustafa Pasha who also served in the Danube Front during the Crimean War, writed his war memoirs, after the war. In this paper, the war memoirs written by Tevfik Mustafa Pasha will be evaluated.

  • Issue Year: 4/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 676-700
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Turkish