Osmanlı Devleti'nde yedisi Sultan II. Abdülhamid devrinde olmak üzere toplam dokuz kere Sadrazamlık makamına getirilmiş Küçük Said Paşa şüphesiz önemli bir devlet adamı idi. Uzun devlet memuriyeti tecrübelerinden sonra II. Abdülhamid tarafından ikbal kapıları açılan Said Paşa, uygulanan katı otokraside tercih edilen bir bürokrat olmuştur. Hatta görevde olmadığı zamanlarda dahi daima fikri sorulmuş; genellikle devletin başında önemli gaileler olduğunda göreve getirilmiştir. Böyle bir dönemde Türkiye'nin çağdaşlaşması yönünde birçok reformda onun gayret ve imzası vardır. Bu çalışmada, Küçük Said Paşa'nın II. Abdülhamid tarafından niçin tercih edildiği, her ikisinin reformcu karakterlerinin başlıca özellikleri ile başarı ve başarısızlıkları ve "Türk" kavramını nasıl algıladıkları karşılaştırmalı olarak tartışılmıştır.
Küçük Said Pasha, who were appointed as the Prime Minister of the Ottoman Empire seven times in the period of Sultan Abdulhamid II, and in total nine times in his all life, was certainly an important statesman. After a long period of experience in service of the state, Said Pasha, who were advanced in state serve by Abdulhamid II, has always been a preferred bureaucrat in the hard autocracy in practice. Even when he was not in service of the state, his opinions were always asked; and he was generally invited to serve for the state in its hard times. In such a time, he played a crucial role in various reforms aimed at the modernization of Turkey. In this paper, the following questions were comparably discussed in relation to the characteristics and understanding of reform of the Sultan: Why has the Sultan preferred Said Pasha as the prime minister? What were the main aspects of their (the Sultan's and the Pasha's) reformist characters? What were their significant accomplishments and failure? And finally, what were their perceptions of "Turk"?
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