Damat Ferid Pasha
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Damat Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha |
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| Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
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In office 4 March 1919 – 2 October 1919 |
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| Monarch | Mehmed VI |
| Preceded by | Ahmet Tevfik Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Ali Rıza Pasha |
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In office 5 April 1920 – 21 October 1920 |
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| Monarch | Mehmed VI |
| Preceded by | Salih Hulusi Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Ahmet Tevfik Pasha |
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| Born | 1853 Constantinople (Istanbul), Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 6 October 1923 (aged 69–70) Nice, France |
| Nationality | Ottoman |
| Political party | Freedom and Accord Party |
| Spouse(s) | Mediha Sultan |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Damat Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: محمد عادل فريد پاشا; 1853 – 6 October 1923), known simply as Damat Ferid Pasha, was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian origin who held the office of Grand Vizier during two periods under the reign of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI Vahdeddin, the first time between 4 March 1919 and 2 October 1919 and the second time between 5 April 1920 and 21 October 1920, a title equivalent to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs. Officially, he was brought to the office a total of five times, since his cabinets were recurrently dismissed under various pressures and he had to present new ones.
Some claim that he was born in 1853 in Istanbul as the son of Izet Efendić, an ethnic Bosniak and a member of the Ottoman Council of State (Şûrâ-yı Devlet) and Governor of Beirut and Sidon in 1857, who was born in the village of Potoci near Pljevlja, in today's Montenegro but there is no clear evidence about that. In 1879, Ferid was enrolled at the Schools of Islamic charities in Sidon. He served several positions in Ottoman administration before he entered the foreign office of the Ottoman Empire and was assigned to different posts at embassies in Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and London. He married a daughter of Abdülmecid I, Mediha Sultan, which earned him the title of "damat" ("bridegroom" to the Ottoman dynasty). Like his father, he became a member of the Şûrâ-yı Devlet in 1884 and earned the title of vizier soon afterwards. Refused the post of ambassador in London by the sultan Abdülhamid II, he resigned from public service and returned only after two decades, in 1908, as a member of the Senate of the Ottoman Parliament.
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