Early Life
Ali Fuat was born in September 1882 to father Ismail Fazil Pasha and mother Zekiye Hanım. Ali Fuat is the grandson (mother's side) of Müşir Mehmet Ali Pasha (Ludwig Karl Friedrich Detroit) who was the commander of the Danube Army (Tuna Şark Ordusu) during Russo-Turkish war, participated in Congress of Berlin as one of three representatives of the Ottoman Empire and killed on September 7, 1878 in Đakovica (Kosovo) by Albanian insurgents who were not satisfied with results of Berlin Congress.
Ali Fuat attended the War School (1902) and graduated from the Ottoman War College (1905) as a Staff Captain (Erkân-ı Harp Yüzbaşısı).
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