After the Ottoman coup d’état of January 1913 , Enver Pasha became ( 4 January 1914 ) the Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire , forming one-third of the triumvirate known as the " Three Pashas " ( along with Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha ) who held '' de facto '' rule over the Empire from 1913 until the end of World War I in 1918 . As war minister and '' de facto '' Commander-in-Chief ( despite his role as the '' de jure '' Deputy Commander-in-Chief , as the Sultan formally held the title ) , Enver Pasha was the most powerful figure of the government of the Ottoman Empire . . Along with Talaat and Djemal , he was one of the principal perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide of the Assyrian Genocide and of the Greek Genocide and thus is held responsible for the death of between 800,000 and 1,800,000 Armenians , 300,000 Assyrians and 350,000 Greeks
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Enver Pasha