Ahmed Hamdi Pasha

Biography:

Ahmed Hamdi Pasha was an Ottoman statesman. He was the governor of İzmir from 1873 to 1874. He was governor of Damascus from 1875 to 1876. In 1876 he was involved in Shkodër Albania. He served shortly as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 11 January 1878 to 4 February 1878 during the Russo-Turkish War. The sultan Abdülhamid II to dismissed him upon pressure of the Young Ottomans in First Constitutional Era. From 1875 to 8 May 1876 and from 1880 to 1885 he was the governor of Syria.