MAHMUT SEVKET PASHA’S ASSASSINATION AND THE IMPRESSIONS OF THE ASSASINATION IN ISTANBUL PRESS


Mahmut Şevket Pasha; who was born in Bagdat in 1856, tended to be a soldier with also his father’s desire. The Pasha, who had joined to military college in 1877, graduated in 1882. After having been in some military mission, he took his essential honor by assuming The Commander of the Action Army who is in charge quelling the continuance of the 31 March incident. After that Mahmut Şevket Pasha; who took the grade of First, Second and Third Army İnspector, had joined to the cabinet as War Minister in İbrahim Pasha’s cabinet for the first time. Mahmut Şevket Pasha also pressed ahead War Minister in the government which Said Pasha formed after Hakkı Pasha’s resignation. Mahmut Şevket Pasha was assigned as Grand vizier and War Minister by supporting of the Unionists after Babıali invasion dated 23 January 1913. Mahmut Şevket Pasha, who was Grand vizier and War Minister, had been killed in a car in Bayezid as a result of assassination when he came to tramway road with his military assistants and his driver to go to Babıali in 11 June 1913. In this workout, it has been tried to observe besides the research about by whom the assassination might have been committed and the impression of the assassination on the public opinion by the movement on the leading newspapers of İstanbul Press; Tanin, Tasvir-i Efkar, Tercüman-ı Hakikat and İkdam.


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Mahmut Şevket Pasha, The Union and Progress Association, assassination, İstanbul press.

Author : Mustafa ÇADIRCI -Hüseyin MERTOL - Ömer ÇELİKKOL
Number of pages: 185-199
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.22698
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Turkish Studies - Historical Analysis
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