Mahmud Nedim Pasha

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Mahmud Nedim Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Minister of the Interior
In office 1879–1882
Monarch	Abdul Hamid II
Preceded by	Kadri Pasha
Succeeded by	Ibrahim Edhem Pasha
Personal details
Born	1818 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	14 May 1883 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire

Mahmud Nedim Pasha (Turkish: Mahmut Nedim Paşa) was an Ottoman conservative statesman of ethnic Georgian background,^[1][2] who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1871–1872 and 1875–1876.

He was the son of Mehmed Najib Pasha, a governor-general of Baghdad. After occupying various subordinate posts at the Porte, he became under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, governor-general of Damascus and İzmir (Smyrna), minister of commerce, and governor-general of Tripoli.^[3] He was also successively Minister of Justice and Minister of the Navy in 1869, and ultimately grand vizier (identical to a prime minister at this point in the Empire) twice from 1871 to 1872 and from 1875 to 1876.

He was high in favour with Sultan Abdul Aziz and fell much under the influence of General Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev, the forceful Russian ambassador before the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), his perceived subservience to Russia earning him the nickname of "Nedimoff". His administration was mostly unsuccessful from every point of view, and he was largely responsible for the issue of the decree suspending the interest on the Ottoman Empire's funds. He was Grand Vizier and Minister of the Interior from 1879 to late 1882.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mahmud Nedim Pasha". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 397.

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