Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha Explained

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]

Legacy

Izzet Mehmet commissioned a watchtower in 1797[3] and a mosque in 1798[4] in his hometown of Safranbolu (see İzzet Mehmet Pasha Mosque).

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References

  1. Book: 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti. Thomas Philipp. Moshe Perlmann. Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt. 2. 1994. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. 315. ...the pasha of Morea, Muhammad Pasha, who had been in Jidda the previous year and was known as 'Izzat, was to be governor of Egypt..
  2. http://www.tualimforum.com/diger-unlulerin-biyografileri/33704-safranbolulu-izzet-mehmet-pasa-biyografisisafranbolulu-izzet-mehmet-pasa-hayati.html Tualimforum page
  3. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/anatolian-watchtowers-gather-in-a-small-town.aspx?pageID=238&nid=33413 Hürriyet Newspaper
  4. http://www.karabukkulturturizm.gov.tr/belge/1-57207/onemli-tarihi-yapilar.html Tourism page