abdul kerim pasha's first battle was when the russian general oganovski launched an offence into the hills west of manzikert, in 1915. abdul kerim pasha counterattacked against the russians and defeated oganovski at the battle of manzikert, and captured the town of manzikert. however nikolai yudenich, replaced oganovski, as russian commander, and counterattacked, re-taking manzikert.