Ibrahim Hakki Pasha (Turkish: İbrahim Hakkı Paşa 1862–1918) was an Ottoman statesman, who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1910 and 1911.[1] He also served as the Minister of Education and Internal Affairs and in 1910, managed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Public Works while Grand Vizier. He served as Ottoman ambassador to Germany and to the Kingdom of Italy.[2]
Ibrahim Hakki | |
|---|---|
 Ibrahim Hakki Pasha | |
| Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
| In office 12 January 1910 – 30 September 1911 | |
| Monarch | Mehmed V |
| Preceded by | Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Mehmed Said Pasha |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1863 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 29 July 1918 Berlin, German Empire |
| Nationality | Ottoman |
Biography
editİbrahim Hakkı was born in Istanbul in 1863. His father was Sakızlı Mehmed Remzi Efendi, the President of the Istanbul Municipality Council (İstanbul Şehremaneti Meclis Reisi).[3]
He graduated from the Mülkiye Mektebi in 1882. In 1884, he became the translator of the Mabeyn-i hümayun. He translated detective novels for Sultan Abdulhamid II.[4] He also gave lectures at the Law and Trade Schools. In 1894, he was appointed as the Legal Counselor of the Sublime Porte (Hukuk Müşavirliği). He served as the chairman and member of approximately 30 diplomatic commissions. He was sent to Crete and the United States before the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era.[4]
In 1908, he served as the Minister of Education in the 7th Said Pasha cabinet, which was established the day before the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era, and as the Minister of Education and Internal Affairs in the Mehmed Kâmil Pasha cabinet. Since he did not want to remain in this position,[5] he resigned from the ministry in December 1908. He assumed the duty of the Ottoman Empire's ambassador to Rome. He continued in this position until the end of 1909.
After Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha resigned from the Grand Viziership, İbrahim Hakkı became the Grand Vizier in 1910. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Works. He resigned from the ministry when Italy invaded Ottoman Tripolitania.
Hakki Pasha also spent considerable amounts of time in London between February 1913 and the outbreak of World War I, working on negotiations concerning the Berlin-Baghdad Railway and a settlement for the Second Balkan War.[6] During that visit, Hakki Pasha met with King George V.[7] He returned to Istanbul when World War I began.[8]
He was appointed as ambassador to Berlin in 1915. Additionally, he was appointed as a member of the Senate in 1917. He served in the Ottoman delegation of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty. He died shortly after returning to Berlin on July 29, 1918. His body was brought to Istanbul and buried in the Yahya Efendi Lodge. İbrahim Hakkı Pasha, who had works in the field of science as well as being a statesman, wrote several textbooks.
He was awarded the Order of Karađorđe's Star.[9]
Works
edit- Medhal-i Hukuk-u Düvel, 1885
- Tarih-i Hukuk-u Beyneddüvel, 1885
- Küçük Osmanlı Tarihi, 1890
- Tarih-i Umûmi, 3 cilt, 1887-1888
References
edit- ^ "Ibrahim Hakki Pasha". Archived from the original on 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
- ^ Kayalı, Hasan (1997). "The Opposition and the Arabs, 1910 –1911". Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520204461. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ^ "Hasan Yüksek, 19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Tarihçiliği, Temmuz 2006". Archived from the original on 6 May 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ a b "Mustafa Ergün, II. Meşrutiyet Devrinde Eğitim Hareketleri (1908-1914), Ankara, 1996" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ "Mustafa Ergün, II. Meşrutiyet Devrinde Eğitim Hareketleri (1908-1914), Ankara, 1996" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ "Turkish Successes And Failures." Times [London, England] 13 February 1913: 7.
- ^ "The Capture Of Yanina." Times [London, England] 8 March 1913: 5.
- ^ "Hasan Yüksek, 19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Tarihçiliği, Temmuz 2006". Archived from the original on 6 May 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 369.
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