Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	Gürcü · Damat
Halil Rifat
Honorific-Suffix:	Pasha
Office1:	Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Empire
Monarch1:	Mahmud II
Term Start1:	1830
Term End1:	1832
Predecessor1:	Pabuççu Ahmed Pasha
Successor1:	Çengeloğlu Tahir Mehmet Pasha
Term Start2:	1843
Term End2:	1845
Predecessor2:	Çengeloğlu Tahir Mehmet Pasha
Successor2:	Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha
Term Start3:	1847
Term End3:	1848
Predecessor3:	Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha
Successor3:	Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha
Monarch4:	Abdulmejid I
Term Start4:	1854
Term End4:	1855
Predecessor4:	Kıbrıslı Mehmed Pasha
Successor4:	Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha
Birth Date:	1795
Birth Place:	Georgia
Death Date:	4 March 1856 (aged 58-59)
Death Place:	Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality:	Ottoman
Blank1:	Origins
Spouse:	Fülane Hanim Saliha Sultan Ismet Hanım
Children:	First marriage Ali Bey Second marriage Sultanzade Abdülhamid Bey Efendi Sultanzade Cavid Bey Efendi Ayşe Şadıka Hanımsultan Third marriage Asaf Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha

Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha, (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: داماد کرجی خلیل رفعت پاشا; 1795 – 3 March 1856) was an Ottoman admiral and statesman of Georgian origin. He served in the periods of Mahmud II and Abdulmejid I.

Career

Halil Rifat Pasha was a slave, protégé and later rival of Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha. He first served as the ambassador to Russia from 1829 to 1830.^[1] He then served as grand admiral for four times from 1830 to 1832, 1843–1845, 1847–1848 and 1854–1855,^[2] as well as chairman of the Supreme Council of Judicial Ordinances ("Meclis-i Vâlâ") from 1842 to 1845 and 1849–1850. He also served as serasker from 1836 to 1838 and 1839–1840. This placed him in a good position to build and maintain a conservative group, usually in corporation with Hüsrev Pasha.^[3]

Family

Halil Rifat had three wives:

• Fülane Hanim. Unknown wife by who he divorced to marry Saliha Sultan, daughter of Mahmud II. From her he had at least one son:
  • Ali Paşah, ambassador to Austria. He in turn had a son:
    • Ali Füad Ürfi Bey. He married Ayşe Şadika Hanımsultan, daughter of Cemile Sultan (granddaughter of Sultan Mahmud II). By her he had two daughters:
      • Kerime Hanım
      • Naime Hanım
• Saliha Sultan. Daughter of the sultan Mahmud II, they married on 22 May 1834 and he widowed in February 1843. Their marriage was unhappy, but by her he had two sons and a daughter:^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}
  • Sultanzade Abdülhamid Bey Efendi (2 March 1835 - March 1837).
  • Sultanzade Cavid Bey Efendi (1837 -?).
  • Ayşe Şadıka Hanımsultan (1841 - 1886). She married Server Paşah, son of Said Server Efendi. She had at least three daughters:^{[8] [9] [10]}
    • Ayşe Hanim.
    • Azize Hanim. She married Hariciyeci Suad Bey and had two sons, Ziya Songülen and Mahmud Bey and a daughter Fehire Hanim.
    • Fatma Hanim. She married Fehmi Bey, son of the grand vizier Mehmed Esad Saffet Pasha, and had a son, Halil Bey, and a daughter, Belkis Hanim.
• Ismet Hanim. He married her after Saliha's death. From her he had a son:^[11]
  • Asaf Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha (1853 - 1903). He had three wives:
    • Hacer Hanim. From her he had a son:
      • Halil Rifat Bey
    • Iffet Hanim. By her he had two sons:
      • Ali Füad Bey
      • Asım Bey
    • Seniha Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdülmejid I and granddaughter of Sultan Mahmud II. They married in February 1877 and had two sons by her:^{[12] [13]}
      • Sultanzade Mehmed Sabahaddin (13 February 1879 – 30 June 1948). He had two wives and a daughter.
      • Sultanzade Ahmed Lütfullah Bey. She had two wives, Kamran Hanim and a Hungarian woman, with whom he had a son, Nadi Bey.

Death

Hali Rifat Pasha died in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey) on 3 March 1856.^[14]

See also

• List of Kapudan Pashas

Notes and References

1. Book: Historical Abstracts: Modern history abstracts, 1450-1914, Volume 49, Issues 3-4. American Bibliographical Center, Clio. 1998. 757.
2. Book: Aksan, Virginia. Ottoman Wars, 1700-1870: An Empire Besieged. Routledge. January 14, 2014. 409. 978-1-317-88403-3.
3. Book: Stanford J.. Shaw. Ezel Kural. Shaw. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 2, Reform, Revolution, and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808-1975, Volume 11. Cambridge University Press. May 27, 1977. 36, 69, 487. 978-0-521-29166-8.
4. Book: Uluçay, M. Çağatay . Padişahların kadınları ve kızları . January 19, 2022 . 2001 . Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi . tr . 190 . 949604569 . 978-975-437-840-5.
5. Book: Lutfı̂, Ahmet . Vak'anüvı̂s Ahmed Lûtfı̂ Efendi tarihi . January 19, 2022 . 1. baskı . 1999 . Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı . tr . 827 . 44065146 . 975-08-0074-5.
6. Book: Hatice . Aynur . Esat . Efendi . Halil İbrahim . Rıfat . Saliha Sultan'ın düğününü anlatan surnâmeler, 1834: inceleme, tenkitli metin ve tıpkıbasım. . January 19, 2022 . 1995 . Harvard Üniversitesi Yakındoğu Dilleri ve Medeniyetleri Bölümü . tr . 8 . 34479673.
7. Book: Haskan, Mehmet Nermi . Eyüp Sultan tarihi . January 19, 2022 . 2008 . Eyüpsultan Belediyesi . tr . 463 . 949551647 . 978-975-6087-04-6.
8. Book: Canli tarihler . v. 5 . 1946 . 184, 186.
9. Book: Söylemezoğlu, Ghalib Kémaly . Hariciye hizmetinde 30 sene, 1892-1922: Mutlakiyet, Meşrutiyet ve Millî Mücadele yıllarında şahidi veya âmil olduğum hâdiselere ait vesikalar . Maarig Basımevi . v. 2 . 1949 . 40.
10. Book: Atasoy, M. Celalettin . Kandilli'de tarih . Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu . 1982 . 73.
11. Book: Ahmet . Malatyalı . İrfan . Çalışan . Tarihi, kültürü ve sanatıyla Eyüpsultan Sempozyumu, IX: tebliğler . 19 January 2022 . 2005 . Eyüp Belediyesi Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü . tr . 69674263 . 975-6087-02-1.
12. Web site: Ekinci . Ekrem Buğra . SULTAN HAMİD'İN HAYIRSIZ AKRABALARI MAHMUD PAŞA VE PRENS SABAHADDİN . ekrembugraekinci.com . tr . 2018-12-14 . 2021-01-14.
13. Book: Taglia, Stefano. Intellectuals and Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Young Turks on the Challenges of Modernity. Routledge. April 4, 2015. 80. 978-1-317-57863-5.
14. Book: Haskan, Mehmet Nermi. Yüzyıllar boyunca Üsküdar. 3. Üsküdar Belediyesi. 2001. 1402. 978-9-759-76063-2.