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, statesman and diplomat, who was twice Foreign Affairs Minister of the Ottoman Empire. Sadık Rifat Pasha's career was initially in line with the three statesmen of the

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). However, the internal competition and the frequent changes of the places of Ottoman bureaucrats at the time, such as the checkers, and especially the foreign powers' intervention prevented him holding office for a longer term. He died at a relatively young age in 1857.

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{{Authority control 1807 births 1857 deaths 19th-century diplomats People from the Ottoman Empire