Hüseyin_Avni_Pasha

Hüseyin Avni Pasha

Hüseyin Avni Pasha

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1874 to 1875

For other people named Hüseyin Avni, see Hüseyin Avni (disambiguation).
In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Hüseyin Avni, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name.

Hüseyin Avni Pasha (1820 – 15 June 1876) was an Ottoman governor-general and statesman.[1] He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 15 February 1874 to 26 April 1875.[1] He was killed by Çerkez Hassan[2] the younger brother of Neşerek Kadın Efendi, who accused him of the murder of Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz, on 15 June 1876 during a cabinet meeting of Ottoman Sultan Murad V at the residence of Midhat Pasha near Beyazıt in Fatih, Istanbul. The foreign affairs minister Mehmed Rashid Pasha was also killed in the attack.

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Çerkess Hassan, the murderer of Hüseyin Avni Pasha

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References

  1. [1]
    Danişmend, İsmail Hâmi (1971). Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı (in Turkish). Istanbul: Türkiye Yayınevi.
  2. [2]
    "Killing Ministers of State in Constan; Tinople.--". The New York Times. 26 February 1888.


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