Damat Ferid Pasha

Mehmed Adil Ferid
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office
4 March 1919 – 2 October 1919
MonarchMehmed VI
Preceded byAhmet Tevfik Pasha
Succeeded byAli Rıza Pasha
In office
5 April 1920 – 21 October 1920
MonarchMehmed VI
Preceded bySalih Hulusi Pasha
Succeeded byAhmet Tevfik Pasha
Personal details
Born1853
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died6 October 1923 (aged 69–70)
Nice, France
NationalityOttoman
Political partyFreedom and Accord Party
SpouseMediha Sultan

Damat Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: محمد عادل فريد پاشا Turkish: Damat Ferit Paşa;‎ 1853 – 6 October 1923), known simply as Damat Ferid Pasha, was an Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the de facto prime minister of the Ottoman Empire, during two periods under the reign of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI, the first time between 4 March 1919 and 2 October 1919 and the second time between 5 April 1920 and 21 October 1920. Officially, he was brought to the office a total of five times, since his cabinets were recurrently dismissed under various pressures and he had to present new ones.[1] Because of his involvement in the Treaty of Sèvres, his collaboration with the occupying Allied powers, and his readiness to acknowledge atrocities against the Armenians, he was declared a traitor and subsequently a persona non grata in Turkey. He emigrated to Europe at the end of the Greco-Turkish War.

  1. ^ İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish)