page_title: Wehib Pasha
section_title: Balkan wars
hierarchical_section_title: Wehib Pasha / Biography / Balkan wars
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of the surrender of Yanina to the Greek Army after the Battle of Bizani. Pictured are Greek Cavalry General Alexandros Soutsos (center left) shaking hands with the Ottoman representative, Major Vehib Bey.
context_page_description: Wehib Pasha also known as Vehip Pasha, Mehmed Wehib Pasha, Mehmet Vehip Pasha, was a general in the Ottoman Army. He fought in the Balkan Wars and in several theatres of World War I. In his later years, he acted as a military advisor to the Ethiopian army in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
context_section_description: During the First Balkan War, Vehib defended the Fortress of Yanya with his brother Esad Pasha who was the commander of the Yanya Corps, until February 20, 1913. The Ottoman forces eventually surrendered to the Greeks under Crown Prince Constantine.
  After his release as a prisoner of war, Vehib was made a Colonel in the 22nd Infantry Division.  He was sent to Hejaz in Arabia.
caption: Vehib, as his brother's representative, surrendering the city of Ioannina to the Greek general Alexandros Soutsos.
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