Often known as 'Djèlaleddin Moukhtar' in Europe, he served as a prominent military and civilian physician and a medical scholar in the last decades of the Ottoman Empire and the early history of Turkey.

In 1889, he was sent to Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris to carry out his studies on skin and syphilitic diseases and worked with famous dermatologists such as Jean Alfred Fournier, Émile Vidal, Ferdinand-Jean Darier, Ernest Besnier, and François Henri Hallopeau.

In this congress, various dermatological diseases such as lichen, pityriasis rubra pilaris, pemphigus, trichophytosis, syphilis, and leprosy were discussed, and Muhtar presented a paper on syphilitic chancre without lymphadenopathy.

Muhtar studied histology in Louis-Charles Malassez's laboratory and pathological anatomy in Hôpital de la Charité from P.C.E.

[1][2] In addition to his scholarly contribution to medicine, Muhtar joined the board of directors of the Turkish Red Crescent in April 1911 and also worked as a general inspector for the institution.

Despite the difficulties of war, he increased physical force of the Red Crescent and built warehouses to defend goods brought into Anatolia.

In spite of visual loss, his interest in science remained, and he spent his last years listening to medical publications being read to him.