Mehmed Cemil Bey Explained

Mehmed Cemil
Honorific-Suffix:Pasha
Birth Date:1828
Birth Place:Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Death Date:1872
Death Place:Romania
Signature:Signature of Mehmed Cemil Bey.png

Mehmed Cemil Bey (1828 – 1872) was an Ottoman diplomat, who was one of the many European-educated public figures in the mid-19th-century Ottoman Empire.

He represented the Ottoman Empire at the Congress of Paris, the 1856 diplomatic meeting held to make peace after the Crimean War.[1]

Early life and career

Mehmed Cemil Bey was born in Constantinople as the son of Mustafa Reşid Pasha, the chief architect behind the Tanzimat reforms.

He was a representative of the Ottoman Empire, alongside Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha at the Congress of Paris in 1856. He also served as an ambassador to France.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Badem, Candan. The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856). 2010 . Brill. 978-90-04-18205-9. en.