Ibrahim Hakki Pasha
{{Short description|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1910 to 1911}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Ibrahim Hakki
| honorific-suffix = Pasha
| image = Ibrahim hakki.jpg
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| nationality = Ottoman
| caption = Ibrahim Hakki Pasha
| office1 = Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
| monarch1 = Mehmed V
| term_start1 = 12 January 1910
| term_end1 = 30 September 1911
| predecessor1 = Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha
| successor1 = Mehmed Said Pasha
| birth_date = 1863
| birth_place = Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
| death_date = 29 July 1918
| death_place = Berlin, German Empire
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}}Ibrahim Hakki Pasha ({{langx|tr|İbrahim Hakkı Paşa }} 1862–1918) was an Ottoman statesman, who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1910 and 1911.{{cite web|url=http://www.tarihvakfi.org/ibrahim-hakki-pasa-1862-1918.html|title=Ibrahim Hakki Pasha|access-date=2010-03-12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707021351/http://www.tarihvakfi.org/ibrahim-hakki-pasa-1862-1918.html|archive-date=2009-07-07}} He also served as the Minister of Education and Internal Affairs and in 1910, managed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Public Works while Grand Vizier. He served as Ottoman ambassador to Germany and to the Kingdom of Italy.{{cite book|last=Kayalı|first=Hasan|title=Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918|publisher=University of California Press|year=1997|chapter=The Opposition and the Arabs, 1910 –1911|isbn=9780520204461|url=http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft7n39p1dn&chunk.id=s2.3.1&toc.id=ch04&brand=ucpress|access-date=27 December 2012}}
Biography
İbrahim Hakkı was born in Istanbul in 1863. His father was Sakız
He graduated from the Mülkiye Mektebi in 1882. In 1884, he became the translator of the Mabeyn-i hümayun. He translated detective novels for Sultan Abdulhamid II.{{cite web|access-date=19 August 2011 |archive-date=18 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118043205/http://www.egitim.aku.edu.tr/mesrutiyet.pdf |title=Mustafa Ergün, II. Meşrutiyet Devrinde Eğitim Hareketleri (1908-1914), Ankara, 1996 |url=http://www.egitim.aku.edu.tr/mesrutiyet.pdf}} He also gave lectures at the Law and Trade Schools. In 1894, he was appointed as the Legal Counselor of the Sublime Porte (Hukuk Müşavirliği). He served as the chairman and member of approximately 30 diplomatic commissions. He was sent to Crete and the United States before the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era.
In 1908, he served as the Minister of Education in the 7th Said Pasha cabinet, which was established the day before the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era, and as the Minister of Education and Internal Affairs in the Mehmed Kâmil Pasha cabinet. Since he did not want to remain in this position,{{cite web|access-date=19 August 2011 |archive-date=18 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118043205/http://www.egitim.aku.edu.tr/mesrutiyet.pdf |title=Mustafa Ergün, II. Meşrutiyet Devrinde Eğitim Hareketleri (1908-1914), Ankara, 1996 |url=http://www.egitim.aku.edu.tr/mesrutiyet.pdf}} he resigned from the ministry in December 1908. He assumed the duty of the Ottoman Empire's ambassador to Rome. He continued in this position until the end of 1909.
After Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha resigned from the Grand Viziership, İbrahim Hakkı became the Grand Vizier in 1910. He also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Works. He resigned from the ministry when Italy invaded Ottoman Tripolitania.
Hakki Pasha also spent considerable amounts of time in London between February 1913 and the outbreak of World War I, working on negotiations concerning the Berlin-Baghdad Railway and a settlement for the Second Balkan War."Turkish Successes And Failures." Times [London, England] 13 February 1913: 7. During that visit, Hakki Pasha met with King George V."The Capture Of Yanina." Times [London, England] 8 March 1913: 5. He returned to Istanbul when World War I began.{{cite web|access-date=19 August 2011 |archive-date=6 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506173628/http://www.belgeler.com/blg/raz/xix-yuzyil-osmanli-tarihciligi-ottoman-historiography-in-the-xix-century |title=Hasan Yüksek, 19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Tarihçiliği, Temmuz 2006 |url=http://www.belgeler.com/blg/raz/xix-yuzyil-osmanli-tarihciligi-ottoman-historiography-in-the-xix-century}}
He was appointed as ambassador to Berlin in 1915. Additionally, he was appointed as a member of the Senate in 1917. He served in the Ottoman delegation of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty. He died shortly after returning to Berlin on July 29, 1918. His body was brought to Istanbul and buried in the Yahya Efendi Lodge. İbrahim Hakkı Pasha, who had works in the field of science as well as being a statesman, wrote several textbooks.
He was awarded the Order of Karađorđe's Star.{{Cite book |last=Acović |first=Dragomir |title=Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima |publisher=Službeni Glasnik |year=2012 |location=Belgrade |pages=369}}
Works
- Medhal-i Hukuk-u Düvel, 1885
- Tarih-i Hukuk-u Beyneddüvel, 1885
- Küçük Osmanlı Tarihi, 1890
- Tarih-i Umûmi, 3 cilt, 1887-1888
References
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Category:Ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire to Italy
Category:20th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire
Category:Ottoman people of the Italo-Turkish War
Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of the Ottoman Empire
Category:Politicians from Istanbul
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