Mehmet Akif Pasha

Mehmet Akif
Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Mehmet Akif Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died	1893 (aged 71); Çanakkale, Vilayet of the Archipelago, Ottoman Empire
Resting place	Fatih Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

Mehmet Akif Pasha (1822–1893), also known as Arnavut Mehmet Akif Pasha (Mehmet Akif Pasha the Albanian) and Kalkandereli Mehmet Akif Pasha, was an Ottoman^[1]-Albanian statesman and governor of the Ottoman Empire.

From the year 1860 to 1893, he was the governor of nine provinces:^[2]

Salonica Vilayet
Danube Vilayet
Bosnia Vilayet
Prizren Vilayet
Janina Vilayet
Adrianople Vilayet
Baghdad Vilayet
Konya Vilayet
Vilayet of the Archipelago

Between March 1874 and June 1875, Mehmet Akif was appointed Minister of Justice. In addition, he was head of the Council of State (Şura-yı Devle).

References

ISBN 9780888645197. Retrieved 2014-09-23.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link
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ISBN 978-975-428-118-7
, 1999

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[1] ISBN 9780888645197. Retrieved 2014-09-23.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link
)

[2] ISBN 978-975-428-118-7
, 1999

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