Mehmet Esat Bülkat

Mehmet Esat Bülkat (Ottoman Turkish: محمد أسعد بولكات; 18 October 1862 – 2 November 1952) was an Ottoman Army officer who fought during the First Balkan War, where he led the Yanya Corps, and in World War I, where he served as a senior commander in the Gallipoli campaign. Prior to the 1934 Surname Law, he was known as Mehmed Esad Pasha (أسعد باشا یانیه).

Mehmet Esat Bülkat

Mehmed Esad Pasha

(1862-10-18)18 October 1862
Yanya, Ioannina Eyalet, Ottoman Empire (modern Ioannina, Greece)

2 November 1952(1952-11-02) (aged 90)
Istanbul, Turkey

Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Army

1884–1919

Lieutenant general

Greco-Turkish War (1897)
First Balkan War
- Battle of Bizani
- Battle of Pente Pigadia
World War I
- Gallipoli campaign

Mehmet Emin Efendi (Father), Wehib Pasha (Brother), Mehmet Nakyettin Bey (Brother), Kâzim Taşkent (Nephew), Doğan Kardeş (great nephew)

Erickson, Edward J. (2003). . Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-275-97888-5.

Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913

Uyar, Mesut; Erickson, Edward J. (2009). (PDF) (Hardback). Santa Barbara: Praeger Security International. ISBN 978-0-275-98876-0.

Mehmet Esat Bülkat

Mehmet Esat Bülkat

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Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913

A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Ataturk