- Küçük Mehmet Sait Pasha
:"This article is about an Ottoman grand vizier. An Ottoman viceroy to Egypt,
Sa'id of Egypt , is also commonly called Said Pasha"Küçük Mehmet Sait Pasha (1830 - 1914) (literally "Mehmet Sait Pasha the Small") was an Ottoman statesman and editor of the Turkish newspaper "Jerid-i-Havadis".
He became first secretary to Sultan
Abdul Hamid II shortly after the Sultan's accession, and is said to have contributed to the realizations of his majesty's design of concentrating power in his own hands; later he became successively minister of the interior and then governor of Bursa, reaching the high post ofgrand vizier in 1879. He was grand vizier seven more times under Abdul Hamid, and once under his successor, Mehmed V Reşat. He was known for his opposition to the extension of foreign influence inTurkey .In 1896 he took refuge at the British embassy at
Istanbul , and, though then assured of his personal liberty and safety, remained practically a prisoner in his own house. He came into temporary prominence again during the revolution of 1908. On22 July he succeededFuat Pasha as grand vizier, but on the6 August was replaced by the more liberalKamil Pasha , at the insistence of the young Turkish committee. During the Italian crisis in 1911-12 he was again called to the grand-viziership.New International Encyclopedia External links
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