He refused to do so and kept the flag of Ottoman Sultan high in Medina until 72 days after the end of the war. The Ottoman government was upset upon his behavior and the Sultan Mehmed VIdismissed him from his post. He refused to hand over his sword even upon the receipt of a direct order from the Ottoman minister of war. I am busying myself with strengthening the defenses, building roads and squares in Medina. "I am now under the protection of the Prophet, my Supreme Commander. "Fakhr-ud-Din, General, Defender of the Most Sacred City of Medina. Fahreddin Pasha replied him in these words: In August 1918, he received a call to surrender from Sharif Husain of Mecca. "Officers of the heroic Turkish army! O little Muhammads, come forward and promise me, before our Lord and the Prophet, to honor your faith with the supreme sacrifice of your lives."'įahreddin Pasha had said that he had a vision in a dream that Prophet Muhammad had ordered him not to submit. May Allah help us, and may the prayers of Muhammad be with us. I command you to defend him and his city to the last cartridge and the last breath, irrespective of the strength of the enemy. "Soldiers! I appeal to you in the name of the Prophet, my witness. " Prophet of God! I will never abandon you!" But he refused to do so and simply refused to accept the armistice.Īccording to a Turkish author who quotes an eye-witness account, one Friday in the spring of 1918, after prayers in Masjid al-Nabawi (also known as the Prophet's Mosque), Pasha ascended the steps of the pulpit, stopped halfway, and turned his face to the Prophet's tomb and said loud and clear: With the resignation of the Ottoman Empire from the war with the Armistice of Mudros between Ottoman Empire and Entente on 30 October 1918, it was expected that Fahreddin would also surrender. Turkish garrisons of the isolated small train stations withstood the continuous night attacks and secured the tracks against increasing number of sabotages (around 130 major attacks in 1917 and hundreds in 1918 including exploding more than 300 bombs on April 30, 1918). Lawrence and his Arab forces, on which his entire logistics depended. Fahreddin Pasha not only had to defend Medina but also protect the single-track narrow gauge Hejaz Railway from sabotage attacks by T. During World War I, Fahreddin Pasha upon the orders of Djemal Pasha on moved toward Medina in Hejaz to defend it and he was appointed the commander of the Hejaz Expeditionary Force on 17 July 1916.įahreddin Pasha was besieged by Arab forces but tenaciously he defended the holy city.
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