Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Na Nọvemba 1915, Nureddin Bey kwụsịrị Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend's 6th Poona Infantry Division nke British Indian Army na Agha nke Ctesiphon, wee chụsoo ndị iro ya na-alaghachi azụ n'obodo Kut. Ọtụtụ mwakpo dara iweghara obodo ahụ, o wee biri n'otu
nnọchibido nke biri na mgbapụta ndị Briten. German Generalfeldmarschall Colmar von der Goltz rutere Baghdad na 21 Disemba 1915, gbanwere aha nke Iwu dị ka ndị agha Iraq ("Irak Ordusu"), nyochaa ọnọdụ ya ma mesịa hapụ ịmalite mwakpo nke Persia. Na Jenụwarị 20, 1916, Enver Pasha, onye Minista Ottoman nke Agha, dochiri Nureddin Bey na Colonel Halil Bey na Nureddin Bey ka a họpụtara onye isi nke IX Corps na onye isi ndị agha nke atọ.