Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Whiringa-a-rangi 1915, i aukati a Nureddin Bey i te 6th Poona Infantry Division a Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend o te British Indian Army i te Pakanga o Ctesiphon, katahi ka whai i ana hoa riri ki te taone o Kut. He maha nga whakaeke i rahua ki te tango i te pa, a ka noho ia ki te
he whakapae i mutu i te hekenga o Ingarangi. I tae mai te Tiamana Generalfeldmarschall Colmar von der Goltz ki Baghdad i te 21 o Tihema 1915, i huri i te ingoa o te Whakahaerenga hei ope taua o Iraq ("Irak Ordusu"), i tirotirohia ona tuunga, a, i muri mai ka wehe ki te tiimata i te whakaekenga o Persia. I te 20 o Hanuere 1916, Enver Pasha, Minita Ottoman o te Pakanga, i whakakapihia a Nureddin Bey me te Koronel Halil Bey a ka tohua a Nureddin Bey hei rangatira mo te IX Corps me te rangatira mo te toru o nga ope taua.