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Halil Rifat Pasha

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1895 to 1901

Field	Value
name	Halil Rifat Pasha
خلیل رفعت پاشا
honorific-suffix	Pasha
image	File:Halil rifat.jpg
nationality	Ottoman
office1	Mutasarrıf of Vidin
term_start1	1882
term_end1	1886
office2	Governor of Sivas Vilayet
term_start2	1886
term_end2	1889
office3	Governor of Aidin Vilayet
term_start3	1889
term_end3	1891
predecessor3	Nafiz Pasha
successor3	Abdurrahman Nurettin Pasha
office4	Governor of Manastir Vilayet
term_start4	1891
term_end4	1893
office5	Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
monarch5	Abdul Hamid II
term_start5	7 November 1895
term_end5	9 November 1901
predecessor5	Kâmil Pasha
successor5	Mehmed Said Pasha
birth_date	1820
birth_place	Serres, Sanjak of Serres, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
death_date	9 November 1901
death_place	Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

|honorific-prefix = خلیل رفعت پاشا |honorific-suffix = Pasha

Halil Rifat Pasha () (Modern Turkish: Halil Rıfat Paşa; 1820According to the obituary in The Times, he was born about 1807. This would make him almost 95 years old at the time of his death. Other sources give 1820.–9 November 1901) was an Ottoman parliamentarian and statesman during the First Constitutional Era. He furthermore served as the Grand Vizier for six years between 1895 until his death in 1901, during the late Abdul Hamid II era.

Education

He was born in Serres (Serez) and received education in an Islamic type parish school in Selanik (Thessaloniki), then continued to Mekteb-i Mülkiye in Constantinople.

Life and career

After his education years, he started to work as a mailing clerk in Vidin, then worked as secretary in the office of the Governor of Salonika. He advanced by degrees and was appointed to higher official positions by passage of time, including at Rustchuk. In 1882 he was appointed as mutasarrıf of Vidin, then in 1886 he was appointed as governor of Sivas, where he started a road-building programme. He was subsequently appointed governor of Aidin (1889) and later of Monastir, where he fought brigandage units which was rife in the province. He was appointed as minister of internal affairs in 1893. Then he was appointed as grand vizier in November 1895. The most important events in his era as grand vizier were the riots of Sason (in 1895) and in Crete (in 1897), as well as the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 which ended with Ottoman victory.

Trivia

His motto in the road building campaign was "Any place where you can't go is not yours" ()

References

(11 November 1901). "Obituary - Turkish Grand Vizier".

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