Rexhep Pasha Mati
Ottoman-Albanian marshal, governor and war minister.
Rexhep Pasha Mati (Turkish: Matlı Recep Paşa, Arabic: رجب باشا Rajab Pasha; 1842–1908) was an Ottoman-Albanian marshal, governor and war minister.
Biography
Rexhep Pasha Mati was an Albanian.
While serving in Kerbela (modern Karbala, Iraq), Mati took action against an attack on a Bektashi convert in the town and his efforts were praised by Bektashis.
Vali of Tripolitana
Abdul Hamid II was aware of Mati's animosity for his government and himself with the Pasha being politically suspect. The sultan appointed Mati in the early 1900s as the Ottoman military commander of the garrison and vali (governor) of Tripoli, a place often reserved for Ottoman political exiles. Mati allowed Ottoman exiles to operate and hold liberal views with the province of Tripolitana gaining a reputation for freedom of speech. He also allowed Ottoman exiles to escape to Europe. Câmi Baykut was Mati's aide-de-camp in Tripoli. Mati opposed the activities of the Italian Bank Banco di Roma operating in Ottoman Libya. Mohamed Fekini, the kaymakam (sub-governor) of Fassatu had been decorated by Mati for repelling a French military incursion into Ottoman Libya back to the Tunisian border.
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