I te marama o Noema 1915, i aukati a Nureddin Bey i te 6th Poona Infantry Division o te British Indian Army a Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend i te Pakanga o Ctesiphon, ka whai i ana hoa riri ki te taone o Kut. He maha nga whakaeke kaore i kaha ki te tango i te taone, a ka noho ia ki te whakapae i mutu i te tuku a Ingarangi
He aha? 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.