Honorific-Prefix: | Safranbolu |
Izzet Mehmet | |
Office1: | Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire |
Monarch1: | Selim III |
Term Start1: | 19 October 1794 |
Term End1: | 30 August 1798 |
Successor1: | Kör Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha |
Office2: | Ottoman Governor of Egypt |
Term Start2: | May 1791 |
Term End2: | September 1794 |
Predecessor2: | Ismail Pasha |
Successor2: | Kayserili Hacı Salih Pasha |
Birth Date: | 1743 |
Birth Place: | Safranbolu, Ottoman Empire |
Death Date: | 18 September 1812 |
Death Place: | Manisa, Ottoman Empire |
Nationality: | Ottoman |
Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha (1743 – 18 September 1812) was a grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and served from 1794 to 1798.
Izzet Mehmet Pasha was born in Safranbolu (today in Karabük Province, Turkey). His uncle was Kapudan Pasha (grand admiral) . Izzet Mehmed Pasha came to Istanbul in 1759/60 to work with him. In 1778, he married Halil Hamid Pasha's daughter, becoming his son-in-law.
He then served as the Ottoman governor of Jeddah (1787–1790), Morea (1790–1791),[1] and Egypt (May 1791 – September 1794).
On 19 October 1794, he was appointed grand vizier by sultan Selim III. He was dismissed on 30 August 1798 and exiled to Chios (now a Greek island), and then to Manisa. He died in Manisa on 19 September 1812.[2]
Izzet Mehmet commissioned a watchtower in 1797[3] and a mosque in 1798[4] in his hometown of Safranbolu (see İzzet Mehmet Pasha Mosque).