Mehmed Selim Pasha
Mehmed Selim Pasha or Mehmed Selim Sırrı Pasha (1771 Bender, Moldova – 1831 Damascus, Ottoman Empire, nickname: "Benderli") was an Ottoman statesman. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He ruled from 14 September 1824 to 24 October 1828 as Grand Vizier of sultan Mahmud II[1] and failed in the fight against the Greek War of Independence. The Auspicious Incident (Vaka-i Hayriye),[1] the Battle of Navarino (1827), happened during his period in office. In 1828-30 he became Wali (governor) of Rumelia Province and 1830-31 Wali of Damascus (Syria). When the citizens of Damascus and the local garrison of Jannisaries rose in revolt against him, Selim Pasha sought refuge into the Citadel of Damascus. After a siege lasting 40 days he was promised safe passage but murdered before he could leave the city.[2]
Sources
- İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 73. (in Turkish)
- Burns, Ross (2005), Damascus: A History, Milton Park: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-27105-3
| Preceded by Mehmed Said Galip Pasha |
Grand Vizier 14 September 1824 - 24 October 1828 |
Succeeded by Topal Izzet Mehmed Pasha |
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gollark: Your compiler probably has an option to provide extra warnings, which is often useful when debugging strange confusing things.
gollark: Bitwise NOT flips all the bits, logical NOT just does true → false and vice versa.
gollark: Have you tried compiling with whatever flag tells it to give you all warnings?
gollark: ~ is bitwise NOT and not logical NOT, so it might not be valid to use it for this, and by not valid I mean "æÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆææææææææÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆ undefined behaviour" (not really sure, but it might not like having a bool contain 255, and if you were to do ~true that would probably give 254, which is also bad).
gollark: Why ~ instead of ! for NOTing?
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