Khalil Pasha
a Turkish soldier.
He commanded the Turkish army that fought the British under General Townshend during the siege of Kut on the Tigris in the Mesopotamian campaigns of 1915.
The British had already progressed beyond Kut, but finding the Turkish forces stronger than was expected they fell back on Kut. The city was then invested by the forces under Khalil Pasha, who attacked it repeatedly during a period of 147 days, at the end of which time, on April 29, 1916, the British forces under General Townshend surrendered to the Pasha.