Hafiz Hakki Pasha

Hafiz Hakki attended the Ottoman Military Academy, and graduated with Enver Pasha, Mahmud Kâmil Pasha, and Fahreddin Pasha. He finished second in his class (Fahreddin was first, Enver was fourth, Mahmud Kâmil was eighth) and also graduated from the Ottoman Military College first in his class (Enver was second, Mahmud Kâmil was fourth, Fahreddin was seventh) on 5 December 1902.[1] He was known as one of the "Freedom Heroes" in 1908.[2] Hafiz Hakki fought in the Balkan wars of 1912 and went on to write books about how armies should be led.

In World War I, Hakkı was one of the Ottoman commanders at the Battle of Sarikamish. As a colonel, Hakkı was placed in charge of X Corps along the Ottoman army's left flank. During this battle, the Ottoman army was utterly defeated by a much smaller Russian force. During the Ottoman retreat, their army was nearly annihilated, mostly due to extremely cold temperatures.

On 17 February 1910 he married the Ottoman Princess Behiye Sultan, who was the eldest surviving daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, the son of Sultan Murad V.

Hafız was appointed by Enver Pasha to take over the remnants of the Ottoman army in the Caucasus in early 1915. He went on to contract typhus, and ultimately died from the disease just a few weeks later, in the Turkish city of Erzerum.