Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha
Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha was a grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and served from 1794 to 1798.
Izzet Mehmet Pasha was born in Safranbolu. His uncle was Kapudan Pasha . Izzet Mehmed Pasha came to Istanbul in 1759/60 to work with him. In 1778, he married Halil Hamid Pasha's daughter, becoming his son-in-law.
He then served as the Ottoman governor of Jeddah, Morea,
On 19 October 1794, he was appointed grand vizier by sultan Selim III. He was dismissed on 30 August 1798 and exiled to Chios, and then to Manisa. He died in Manisa on 19 September 1812.Legacy
Izzet Mehmet commissioned a watchtower in 1797 and a mosque in 1798 in his hometown of Safranbolu.
