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The Biography of Osman Ferid Pasha
This is the story of one man’s passion for freedom and peace, his courage and devotion to serve and remain faithful to his heritage, family and adopted country.
Shapli Osman Ferid’s life captures the spirit of thousands of refugees caught up in the momentous events of the final capitulation of the Caucasus by the Russians and the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. The strict discipline of his formative years empowered him with the courage and unshakeable sense of duty to overcome hardships and personal injustices while remaining loyal to the tradition-bound demands of a military career.
Osman Ferid’s story begins as a child warrior in the Caucasus until the forced immigration to Istanbul challenged the security of his family and way of life. Through hard work, straight dealing and good manners he wroked his way through the ranks of the Ottoman army to become Commander of Taşkışla Barracks. Unjustly exiled to the arid deserts of Saudi Arabia, Osman Ferid Pasha found love and inner peace.
‘Circassian’ is one of the great romantic names in history, and deserves to be.Tough and wily mountain warriors in the northern part of the Caucasus - Circassia - held off the Russians for forty years and then, in an epic of endurance, settled, in hundreds of thousands, in the territory of modern Turkey. This splendid book is the story of one of them, written up by his descendants. Osman Ferid Pasha carved out a life for himself by catching the eye of the French ambassador and then of the Sultan, as horseman and warrior, and he became an Ottoman general, latterly (as a form of exile) guarding the Holy Places in Arabia (where his battles with Bedouin make for interesting reading). His family then flourished in the Turkish Republic, as many Circassian ones did. If you are interested in Turkey, this is just the right book to take on the plane journey…
Norman Stone
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