Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha

İzzet Mehmet Pasha Mosque

Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha (1743 – 18 September 1812) was a grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and served from 1794 to 1798.^[1]

Izzet Mehmet Pasha was born in Safranbolu (today in Karabük Province, Turkey). His uncle was Kapudan Pasha (grand admiral) Hacı Benli Mustafa Pasha. Izzet Mehmed Pasha came to Istanbul in 1759/60 to work with him.^[1] In 1778, he married Halil Hamid Pasha's daughter, becoming his son-in-law.^[1]

He then served as the Ottoman governor of Jeddah (1787–1790), Morea (1790–1791),^[2] and Egypt (May 1791 – September 1794).^[1]

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.^[1][3]

Legacy

Izzet Mehmet commissioned a watchtower in 1797^[4] and a mosque in 1798^[5] in his hometown of Safranbolu (see İzzet Mehmet Pasha Mosque).

See also

• List of Ottoman Grand Viziers
• List of Ottoman governors of Egypt

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 Mehmet Süreyya (1996) [1890], Nuri Akbayar; Seyit A. Kahraman, eds., Sicill-i Osmanî (in Turkish), Beşiktaş, Istanbul: Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, p. 849 
2. ↑ 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti; Thomas Philipp; Moshe Perlmann (1994). Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt. 2. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. p. 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. 
3. ↑ Tualimforum page (Turkish)
4. ↑ Hürriyet Newspaper
5. ↑ Tourism page (Turkish)

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