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Hafiz was a classmate of Enver Pasha . He ranked number 1 in the military school while Enver ranked second. Hakki fought in the Balkan Wars in 1912 and then wrote books about how armies should be led.

General Hafiz was one of the Ottoman commanders at the Battle_of_Sarikamis . At this battle, the large Ottoman army was utterly defeated by a smaller Russian force. During the retreat, the Ottoman army was nearly anihilated, mostly due to bitterly cold temperatures.

Hafiz was appointed by Enver Pasha to take over the remnants of the Ottoman army in early 1915. He died of Typhus in Erzerum in 1915 just a few weeks later.