Cypriot Mansion and Cypriot Mehmet Emin Pasha

 


  Cypriot Mehmet Emin Pasha was born in 1813 in Paphos, Cyprus. He left the palace service with the rank of "captain". He was appointed as the guard of Acre in December 1844 and then as the mutasarrif of Jerusalem in November 1845. During this period, he suppressed a serious Bedouin revolt in Palestine.  came to Istanbul from Cyprus in his youth and was taken into the palace of Mahmud II with the reference of his uncle Cypriot Mehmed Efendi, who was the Treasury Chamberlain. When the new military organisation was established in 1828, he became a captain in the Hassa Regiment. Four years later, he was sent to Europe for education and stayed in Paris for two years and in London for a while in the retinue of Namık Pasha, who was the Ambassador at that time. When he came to Istanbul, he was promoted to Major. While students were being sent to Europe to study, Mehmet Bey was sent to Paris again, both to take care of these students and to complete his education.

   When he returned home, Abdülmecid became Sultan. With the rank of Miralay, he was assigned to the Tophan, then to the Military Council, and then to recruit redif soldiers from Anatolia. Since he spoke a foreign language, he was preferred to be used in administrative affairs and was appointed as Akkâ Guardian, Jerusalem Mutasarrıf and in 1848 he was appointed as Vizier and Ambassador to London. In 1850 he was appointed Governor of Aleppo and a little later Governor of Crete. After resigning from Crete, he was appointed as Müşir of the Arabian Army, Governor of Edirne in 1852, Captain of the Navy in 1853 and became Grand Vizier in the same year. He served as Grand Vizier for six months in this first Grand Vizierate


     The first foreign borrowing taken on 24 August 1854 for the Crimean War was followed by a second foreign borrowing in 1855, a third in 1858 and a fourth in 1860. Due to the domestic borrowings the state had taken from the Galata bankers with high interest rates, the amount of borrowing to the Galata bankers had exceeded 80 million gold liras. The jewellery and debt securities pledged for this domestic borrowing also fell into the hands of foreign bankers and foreign merchants and effectively became foreign borrowing. As Grand Vizier, Cypriot Mehmet Emin Pasha began to criticise this high level of foreign borrowing very harshly. These criticisms were very badly received by Sultan Abdülmecid I and Mehmet Emin Pasha was dismissed on 23 December 1859.


KIBRISLI MANSION

Kıbrıslı Mansion was purchased by Kıbrıslı Mehmet Emin Pasha in 1840. 

   The first owner of the mansion was İzzet Mehmet Pasha, one of the grand viziers of Abdülhamit I. İzzet Mehmet Pasha was appointed as grand vizier for the second time after the death of Silahtar Mehmet Pasha, who was known as the Black Vizier. For this reason, the mansion is also known as the Black Vizier Mansion. The mansion was built in the last quarter of the 18th century. In 1781, İzzet Pasha was dismissed during his second term as Grand Vizier and died in 1783 while he was the governor of Belgrade, and the mansion was passed to his son Sait Mehmet Bey, who was the second Mirahur (the second senior official of the Ottoman has stable) at that time. The İzzet Pasha family, who lived in this mansion for a while, rented the mansion in 1794 to İzzet Mehmet Pasha, one of the grand viziers of Selim III, who had the same name as İzzet Pasha. After the death of Sait Bey in 1811, his son Mehmet Ataullah Bey, one of the captains of the janitors, started to reside in this mansion of his grandfather in Kandilli." Then, in 1840, Mehmet Emin Pasha bought the mansion.


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