Hüseyin Avni Pasha Explained

Hüseyin Avni
Honorific-Suffix:Pasha
Office1:Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Birth Date:1820
Birth Place:Isparta, Anatolia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

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. 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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Notes and References

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