Mustafa Zihni Pasha


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Personal details
Born     1838
Sulaimaniyah
Died     1911
Constantinople
Nationality:kurdish
Political party-Committee of Union and Progress

Mustafa Zihni Pasha (1838 – 1911) was an Ottoman high official of ethnic Kurdish background, who held a number of ministerial posts. He was also a founding member of the nationalist Kürt Teali Cemiyeti society.
Mustafa Zihni Bey was born in 1838 in Current Iraq.He was a Kurdish Baban prince. He lived on his estate in Constantinople with his three sons, Ahmet Naim Bey, Ismail Hakki Bey and Huseyin Shukru Bey.

Posts
    President of the Council of State
    Minister of finance
    Minister of Commerce and Public Works[1]
    Vali (governor) of the multiple provinces
    Member of the national chamber of notables
    Chief of naval operations
    Head inspector of the army
    Sultan's special representative to Crete
    Chief secretary in the Baghdad 
    Sub-governor (Mutasarrıf) of Burdur, a sanjak within the province of Konya
Mustafa Zihni Pasha's house in Constantinople

References
Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events: Embracing political, military, and ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry, Volume 6, D. Appleton and company
The Danger Zone of Europe Changes and Problems in the Near East, Henry Charles Woods
The Fortnightly, Volume 61, Volume 67, Chapman and Hall, 1897
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