Giritli Sırrı Pasha

Biography:

Giritli Sırrı Pasha was a 19th-century Ottoman administrator and man of letters of Turkish Cretan origin. He was born in 1844 in Kandiye Crete Ottoman Empire as the son of Helvacızade Salih Tosun Efendi. He started out as a clerk in the local Ottoman bureaucracy in Crete and later came to İstanbul pursuing an education with a particular religious emphasis.