Saffet Pasha

{{Short description|Ottoman statesman, diplomat and reformer (1814–1883)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Mehmed Esad Saffet | honorific_suffix = [[Pasha]] | image = File:Saffet pasa.jpg | image_size = | caption = | office1 = [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] | monarch1 = | blank1 = | data1 = | term_start1 = | term_end1 = | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | office2 = | monarch2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 = | monarch3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | office4 = | monarch4 = | term_start4 = | term_end4 = | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | birth_date = 1814 | birth_place = [[Istanbul|Constantinople]], [[Ottoman Empire]] | death_date = 1883 | death_place = | blank2 = | data2 = | party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | allegiance = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | battles = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | footnotes = }} '''Mehmed Esad Saffet Pasha''', ({{langx|ota|'''محمد اسعد صفوت پاشا'''}}) also known as '''Saffet Pasha''' (1814–1883), was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat and reformer, who served as the [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] during the reign of [[Abdul Hamid II]].<ref name="turkbook">İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish)</ref> He was a representative of the [[Ottoman Empire]], alongside [[Sadullah Pasha]] at the [[Congress of Berlin]].

==Biography== [[File:Treaty of San Stefano.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The signing of the [[treaty of San Stefano]].]] He was born in [[Istanbul|Constantinople]] as the son of Mehmed Hulusi Ağa who was from [[Sürmene]]. He was of [[Turkish people|Turkish]] origin.<ref>İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 p: 178 (in Turkish)</ref>

He was a reformer of education during the [[Tanzimat]] period of the [[Ottoman Empire]], as he was one of the co-founders of the prestigious [[Galatasaray High School]]. Saffet Pasha also represented the Ottoman Government at the 1876 [[Constantinople Conference]].

==See also== *[[List of Ottoman grand viziers]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box|title=[[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]]|before=[[Mehmed Rushdi Pasha]]|after=[[Hayreddin Pasha]]|years= May 1878 – October 1878}} {{s-end}}

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