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MEHEMET AALI

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AALI  , See also:Pasha (1815-1871), See also:Turkish statesman, was See also:born at See also:Constantinople in 1815, the son of a See also:government See also:official . Entering the See also:diplomatic service of his See also:country soon after reaching manhood, he became successively secretary of the Em bassy in See also:Vienna, See also:minister in See also:London, and See also:foreign minister under Reshid Pasha . In 1852 he was promoted to the See also:post of See also:grand See also:vizier, but after a See also:short See also:time retired into private See also:life . During the See also:Crimean See also:War he was recalled in See also:order to take the See also:portfolio of foreign affairs for a second time under Reshid Pasha,, and in this capacity took See also:part in 1855 in the See also:conference of Vienna . Again becoming in that See also:year grand vizier, an See also:office he Ailed no less than five times, he represented See also:Turkey at the See also:congress of See also:Paris in '856 . In 1867 he was appointed See also:regent of Turkey during the See also:sultan's visit to the Paris See also:Exhibition . See also:Aali Pasha was one of the most zealous See also:advocates of the introduction of Western reforms under the sultans Abdul Mejid and Abdul Aziz . A See also:scholar and a linguist, he was a match for the diplomats of the See also:Christian See also:powers, against whom he successfully defended the interests of his country . He died at Erenkeni in See also:Asia See also:Minor on the 6th of See also:September 1871 .

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