Izzet Ahmed Pasha

Not to be confused with Ahmed Izzet Pasha, the World War I general.

Izzet Ahmed Pasha (1798 – 20 February 1876), also known as Ahmed Izzet Pasha or Hacı Izzet Pasha or Hakkı Paşazâde Izzet Pasha,[1] was an Ottoman statesman who held a lengthy series of provincial governorships from 1841 to 1870. He was also a vizier (made on 20 September 1845).

Early in his career, Izzet Ahmed Pasha was first kapıcıbaşı (master of ceremonies) at the imperial palace in Constantinople (modern Istanbul) and later the voivode of the Sanjak of Sivas. He was then made a ferik (Lieutenant General) in the Ottoman army. After this, he served as the Ottoman governor of:[2][3]

Izzet Ahmed Pasha was the son of Hakkı Mehmed Pasha (1747–1811), a prominent bureaucrat, vizier, and statesman of the time,[2] and reportedly counted the 16th-century statesman Sokollu Mehmed Pasha as among his ancestors.[4] While posted in Baghdad, he married the daughter of Ali Rıza Pasha, Baghdad's governor.[2] When his father-in-law was dismissed from the governorship of Baghdad, the decree that dismissed him cited Izzet Ahmed Pasha as a source of complaints against alleged abuses of his father-in-law's administration, most likely pointing to a fallout or disagreement between the two, or a political plot against Ali Rıza Pasha by his son-in-law.[5]

With his wife, Izzet Ahmed Pasha himself had three sons: Aziz Pasha (1835–1903), also a serial provincial governor;[6] Hakkı Pasha (died 1877), a mutasarrıf of Bihać; and Süleyman Bey.[2]

Izzet Ahmed Pasha retired from public office in 1870. He died six years later on 20 February 1876 and was buried in Haydarpaşa Cemetery in Istanbul.[2]

  1. ^ The Hakkı Paşazâde preceding his name meant "son of Hakkı Pasha" (1747–1811), used to distinguish him from others with the same name.
  2. ^ a b c d e Mehmet Süreyya (1996) [1890], Nuri Akbayar; Seyit A. Kahraman (eds.), Sicill-i Osmanî (in Turkish), vol. 3, Beşiktaş, Istanbul: Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, p. 844, ISBN 9789753330411
  3. ^ Sinan Kuneralp (1999). Son Dönem Osmanlı Erkân ve Ricali, 1839-1922: Prosopografik Rehber. İsis. p. 57. ISBN 9789754281187.
  4. ^ Christoph Herzog (2012). Osmanische Herrschaft und Modernisierung im Irak (in German). University of Bamberg Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-3-86309-105-7. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  5. ^ Christoph Herzog (2012). Osmanische Herrschaft und Modernisierung im Irak (in German). University of Bamberg Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-3-86309-105-7. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Ahmed Aziz Paşa". University of Bamberg.