 During the Second Balkan War, he commanded the II Corps under the Çatalca Army commanded directly by Ahmet Izzet Pasha and took part in the advance to Adrianople.After the armistice, on 24 December 1913, he was appointed to the commander of the III Corps.After the 1914 mobilization of World War I, Sultan Mehmed V asked him to be the commander of the Third Army.