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A successful Turkish officer and politician: Fevzi Pasha was a Turkish field marshal and politician. He started his primary education in A Community College. After studying in Military Secondary School and Military High School, he entered Turkish Military Academy in 1893. After graduation from the Academy, he was taken into staff officer class and joined the army as staff captain in 1898. He spent his years for the Turkish army and participated a lot of battles during the prolonged downfall of the Ottoman Empire. After spending the practical period in the headquarters, in 1899, he was posted to the staff officer of the 18th Regular Division in Mitrovice in Kosovo. He stayed in Rumeli for fourteen years in the period when the Balkans had their most complicated state. Thanks to his success, he was promoted before his friends. In 1902, he became a major and then a colonel at the age of thirty-seven in 1907. In 1910, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. With the start of the Balkan War, he was assigned to important positions. He fought in the Balkan Wars as the commander of a division at Vardar, and in World War I he successively commanded the Ottoman troops at the Dardanelles, in the Caucasus, and in Syria. After the end of the Balkan War, he was deployed to the command of Ankara Aged Soldiers Battalion and then to the command of 2nd Division. Fevzi Pasha commanded many military successes throughout the Turkish War of Independence, especially during the Battle of Sakarya. So, he played a leading role in the establishment of the Turkish Republic. Thanks to his successes, he became a general in 1913. In the following years, he served as the first National Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. He succeeded Mustafa Kemal as Prime Minister in 1921. In 1922, he was appointed to Field Marshal at the recommendation of Mustafa Kemal. Fevzi Pasha remains as one of the two and only field marshals of Turkey.