Mustafa Zihni Pasha (1838 Sulaimaniyah - 1911 Constantinople) was an Ottoman Kurdwho held a number of influential Ottoman administrative posts. He was also a notable member of the Society for the Rise of Kurdistan.

He was described by Barré de Lancy and Charles Woods as an honest, fair and impartial man, Mustafa Zihni was also described as belonging to the highest Ottoman class.

Mustafa Zihni Pasha

He had an estate in Constantinople where he lived with his three sons, Ahmet Naim Bey, Ismail Hakki Bey and Huseyin Shukru Bey.

Mustafa Zihni Pasha

Posts

Minister of Commerce and Public Works

Vali (governor) of the provinces of Hejaz, Ioannina, Adana and Aleppo

Member of the Senate of the Ottoman Empire

Chief of naval operations

Head inspector of the army

Sultan's special representative to Crete

Chief secretary (Mektupcu) of the Baghdad Province

Sub-governor (Mutasarrıf) of Burdur, a sanjak within the province of Konya

References

Pashas

1838 births

1911 deaths

Political people from the Ottoman Empire

Civil servants from the Ottoman Empire

Kurdish people from the Ottoman Empire

Government ministers of the Ottoman Empire

Committee of Union and Progress politicians

Ottoman governors of Aleppo

Members of the Senate of the Ottoman Empire

Mustafa Zihni Pasha