Abdurrahman Nurettin

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, (; ) also known as Nurettin Pasha (1836–1912), was an Ottoman Turkish

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. He was the

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire The grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire ( or ''Sadr-ı Azam'' (''Sadrazam''); Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: or ) was the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sultan in the Ottoman Empire, with the absolute p ...

from 2 May 1882 to 12 July 1882.

Biography

Born in

Kütahya Kütahya (; historically, Cotyaeum or Kotyaion; Ancient Greek, Greek: Κοτύαιον) is a city in western Turkey which lies on the Porsuk River, at 969 metres above sea level. It is the seat of Kütahya Province and Kütahya District. In 19 ...

in 1836, He was a Turk, he was descendant of the

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, who flourished in that area after the decline and eventual fall of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm. His father, Haji Ali Pasha, was one of the Ottoman governors who died on 25 May 1874 while serving as the governor of

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. Abdurrahman first served in various positions under his father. In 1872 he was promoted to the rank of vizier. He served as an Ottoman provincial governor (his posts included Ankara and Baghdad) before serving as grand vizier to Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1882. Later he was Minister of Justice (1895–1908). The son of Abdurrahman Pasha married to Naile Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid. The son-in-law of Abdurrahman Pasha was Turkish musicologist Hüseyin Sadeddin Arel, and his nephew was

Münir Nurettin Selçuk Münir Nurettin Selçuk (1900 or 1901 – April 27, 1981) was a Turkish classical musician and tenor singer. Biography He was born in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire in 1900 or 1901. His uncle was Grand Vizier of ...

, the Turkish classical musician.

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19th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire 1836 births 1912 deaths Ottoman governors of Aidin People from Kütahya Ottoman governors of Baghdad Turks from the Ottoman Empire Burials at Fatih Mosque Graveyard, Istanbul {{Ottoman-bio-stub