Mustafa Zihni Pasha
| Mustafa Zihni Pasha | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1838 Sulaimaniyah |
| Died | 1911 İstanbul |
| Nationality | Kurdish |
| Political party | Committee of Union and Progress |
| Religion | Islam |
Mustafa Zihni Pasha was a high Ottoman official who held a number of ministerial posts and a founding member of the nationalist Kürt Teali Cemiyeti society.
Early life
Mustafa Zihni Bey was born in 1838 in Sulaimaniyah, a town in the Mosul Province of the Ottoman empire. He was the nephew of a Kurdish Baban prince. He lived on his estate in Constantinople with his three sons, Ahmet Naim Bey, Ismail Hakki Bey and Huseyin Shukru Bey.
Posts
- President of the Council of State
- Minister of Commerce and Public Works[1]
- Vali (governor) of the provinces of Hejaz, Ioannina,[2] Adana[2] and Aleppo[3]
- Member of the Ottoman chamber of notables
- Chief of naval operations
- Head inspector of the army
- Sultan's special representative to Crete
- Chief secretary (Mektupcu) of the Baghdad Province
- Sub-governor (Mutasarnf) of Burdur, a sanjak within the province of Konya
Mustafa Zihni Pasha's house in Constantinople
References
- ↑ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events: Embracing political, military, and ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry, Volume 6, D. Appleton and company
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Danger Zone of Europe Changes and Problems in the Near East, Henry Charles Woods
- ↑ The Fortnightly, Volume 61, Volume 67, Chapman and Hall, 1897