Said Pasha

Mehmed Said Pasha (1830-1914), was a Turkish statesman, was at one time editor of the Turkish newspaper Jerid-i-Havadis.

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He became first secretary to Sultan Abdul Hamid II shortly after his accession, and is said to have contributed to the realizations of his majesty's design of concentrating power in his own hands; later he became successively minister of the interior and then governor of Bursa, reaching the high post of grand vizier in 1879.

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A Turkish statesman of the old school, he was regarded as somewhat bigoted and opposed to the extension of foreign influence in Turkey. He was grand vizier four more times under Abdul Hamid.

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In 1896 he took refuge at the British embassy at Istanbul, and, though then assured of his personal liberty and safety, remained practically a prisoner in his own house. He came into temporary prominence again during the revolution of 1908. On 22 July he succeeded Fuat Pasha as grand vizier , but on the 6 August was replaced by Kamil Pasha, a man of more liberal views, at the insistence of the young Turkish committee.

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Abdul Hamid II: Abd-ul-Hamid II also Abdulhamid, Abd?lhemit, Abdul Hamid, Abd al-Hamid II, or Abdul-Hamid (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from August 31, 1876 – April 27, 1909. He was the son of Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, and succeeded to the throne on the depos...

Bursa: Bursa is a city in northwestern Turkey and the seat of Bursa Province. With a population of 2,562,828 in 2007, and the Ulu Cami (Great Mosque) between 1396 and 1400....

Grand vizier: Grand Vizier, in Turkish Vezir-i Azam or Sadr-? Azam(Sadrazam) or Serdar-? Ekrem (in Ottoman Turkish: ??? ???? or ???? ????), deriving from the Persian word vizier (????), was the greatest minister of the Sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himse...

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