İsmail Enver (Ottoman Turkish: اسماعيل انور) (November 22, 1881 ; in Istanbul - August 4, 1922 ; Tajikistan,later USSR), he was known to European powers as Enver Pasha (Turkish: Enver Paşa) or Enver Bey. As a Turkish military officer he was a leader of the Young Turk Revolution and was given the nickname "The Hero of Liberty" (Hürriyet Kahramanı). He was the main leader of the Ottoman Empire in both Balkan Wars and World War I. He also helped Lenin in the 1917 Russian Revolution . He was also responsible for the Armenian genocide from 1915-1917 . He died in August 1922 in the Russian Civil War and was killed by Machine gun fire in Tajikistan in a unknown location before the USSR was created on 30 December 1922 .
As minister of War from 1914 to 1918 he was defeated in battle against Russia.