The Death Of The Typhus Epidemıc And Hafız İsmail Hakkı Pasha In Erzurum At The First World War

One of the biggest problems that the Ottoman Empire experienced in the Eastern Front in the First World War was the typhus epidemic. In the famous battles of the Sarikamish Battles, where one of the most violent scenes of wars with Russia took place and at the beginning of these battles, the epidemic of typhus caused the death of a humanoid person, one of them being killed by hundreds of thousands of doctors. This typhus epidemic was so effective that it caused more casualties than the battles of the Ottoman Third Army, which fought on the Eastern Front. Those who gave their lives from typhus were killed in ten homeland with the soldier, Hafız İsmail Hakkı Pasha, commander of the front and army, and died before typhus. In this article, the design of the Governor of Erzurum Hasan Tahsin Bey, the telegrams of the Ministry and other archives, the typhus epidemic will be shown the most and the tragedy of the civilian soldier perished, and this tragedy was born. Commander Hafız İsmail Hakkı Paşa tried to explain the day to day death.