Ahmet Tevfik Pasha |
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Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
In office 21 October 1920 – 4 November 1922 |
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Monarch | Mehmed VI |
Preceded by | Damat Ferid Pasha |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
In office 11 November 1918 – 3 March 1919 |
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Monarch | Mehmed VI |
Preceded by | Ahmed Izzet Pasha |
Succeeded by | Damat Ferid Pasha |
In office 13 April 1909 – 5 May 1909 |
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Monarch | Abdul Hamid II |
Preceded by | Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha |
Succeeded by | Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 1899–1909 |
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Monarch | Abdul Hamid II |
Prime Minister |
Halil Rifat Pasha Mehmed Said Pasha Mehmed Ferid Pasha Kâmil Pasha Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha |
Preceded by | Said Halim Pasha |
Succeeded by | Mehmed Rifat Pasha |
Personal details | |
Born |
Istanbul (then Constantinople), Ottoman Empire |
11 February 1845
Died | 8 October 1936 Istanbul, Turkey |
(aged 91)
Nationality | Turkish |
Political party | Committee of Union and Progress |
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: احمد توفیق پاشا; 11 February 1845 – 8 October 1936), known as Ahmet Tevfik Okday after the Surname Law of 1934, was the last Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
He held the office three times, the first in 1909 under Abdul Hamid II, and from 1918 to 1919 and from 1920 to 1922 under Mehmed VI during the Allied occupation of Istanbul. In addition to his premiership, Ahmet Tevfik was also a diplomat, a member of the Ottoman Senate, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Ahmet Tevfik was born on 11 February 1845 in Istanbul. His father, Ferik Ismail Pasha, was a Crimean Tatar descended from the Giray dynasty. Ahmet Tevfik entered military service but left after becoming a junior officer, entering government bureaucracy training. After 1872, he held various foreign ministry posts. After serving as an ambassador in Rome, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Athens, he served as the Ottoman chargé d'affaires and ambassador to Germany in Berlin from 1885 to 1895. After returning to Istanbul, he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Turkish: Hariciye Nazırı) from 1899 to 1909. After the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Era in 1908, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha was appointed to a seat in the revived Senate of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Ayan Meclisi), the upper house of the also-revived parliament, the General Assembly (Turkish: Meclis-i Mebusan).