Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal)
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Mehmed Ali Pasha, c. 1878 | |
| Birth name | Ludwig Karl Friedrich Detroit |
| Born | November 18, 1827 Magdeburg, Prussia (modern Germany) |
| Died | September 7, 1878 (aged 50) Gjakova, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern Kosovo) |
| Rank | Marshal Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army |
| Known for | Delegate of the Ottoman Empire at the 1878 Congress of Berlin |
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Mehmed Ali Pasha (November 18, 1827 – September 7, 1878) was a Prussian-born Ottoman career officer and marshal. He was the grandfather of the Turkish statesman Ali Fuat Cebesoy, and the great-grandfather of famous poets Nâzım Hikmet and Oktay Rıfat Horozcu and the socialist activist, lawyer, and athlete Mehmet Ali Aybar.