Ali Rıza Pasha
Turkish statesperson (1860–1932)
Ali Rıza Pasha (1860–1932) was an Ottoman statesman and field marshal, who was one of the last Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire, under the reign of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI, between 14 October 1919 and 2 March 1920.
Biography
He was born in 1860 in Istanbul, son of a gendarme major. He graduated from the Ottoman Military College in 1886. During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, he served as the Director of the Military Operations Department. He held military and administrative posts such as the Governorship of Manastır in 1903, after which he was exiled to Libya upon the pressure exercised by Russia, for his alleged responsibility for the assassination of a Russian consul of the city. In 1905, he was appointed to Yemen where he suppressed an uprising. He joined the Freemasonry lodge Obedience of Véritas.
With the beginning of the Second Constitutional Era in the Ottoman Empire in 1908, he became War Minister in grand vizier Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kâmil Pasha's government but had to be removed due to objections raised by the Committee of Union and Progress. He was re-appointed to the same ministry in the Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha's cabinet in 1909 but resigned because of the 31 March Incident.
He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Western Army in the Balkan Wars, which erupted before he even had the time to assume his duties.
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