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SAID PASHA (c. 183o- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 1008 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PASHA (c. 183o- )  , surnamed Kvcnui, See also:Turkish statesman, was at one See also:time editor of the Turkish newspaper Jeride-i-Havadis . He became first secretary to See also:Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II. shortly after his See also:accession, and is said to have contributed to the realizations of his See also:majesty's See also:design of concentrating See also:power in his own hands; later he became successively See also:minister of the interior and Vali of Brussa, reaching the high See also:post of See also:grand See also:vizier in 1879 . A Turkish statesman of the old school, he was regarded as somewhat bigoted and opposed to the See also:extension of See also:foreign See also:influence in See also:Turkey . He was grand vizier four more times under Abd-ul-Hamid . In 1896 he took See also:refuge' at the See also:British See also:embassy at See also:Constantinople, and, though then assured of his See also:personal See also:liberty and safety, remained practically a prisoner in his own See also:house . He came into temporary prominence again during the revolution of 1908 . On the 22nd of See also:July he succeeded Ferid See also:Pasha as grand vizier, but on the 6th of See also:August was replaced by Kiamil Pasha, a See also:man of more liberal views, at the instance of the See also:young Turkish See also:committee .

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