Hasan Tahsin Pasha

Biography:

Hasan Tahsin Pasha was a senior Ottoman military officer who served in Yemen and in the First Balkan War. Hasan Tahsin was born in Messaria. During his youth he attended and graduated from the Greek Zosimaia School at Ioannina and spoke Greek fluently. He began service as a gendarme ca. 1870 in Katerini and later joined the Ottoman Army as an NCO.