Hüseyin Avni Pasha

For other people named Hüseyin Avni, see Hüseyin Avni (disambiguation).

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Hüseyin Avni, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name.

Hüseyin Avni Pasha (Turkish: Hüseyin Avni Paşa; 1820 – 15 June 1876) was an Ottoman Turkish governor-general and statesman.^[1] He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 15 February 1874 to 26 April 1875.^[1] He was killed by Çerkez Hasan^[2] the younger brother of Neşerek Kadın Efendi, who accused him of the murder of Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz, on 15 June 1876 during a cabinet meeting of Ottoman Sultan Murad V at the residence of Midhat Pasha near Beyazıt in Fatih, Istanbul. The foreign affairs minister Mehmed Rashid Pasha was also killed in the attack.

Hüseyin Avni Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Personal details
Born	1820 Isparta, Anatolia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Died	15 June 1876(1876-06-15) (aged 55–56) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

Çerkess Hasan, the murderer of Hüseyin Avni Pasha

See also

• List of Ottoman grand viziers