Ziya Pasha

Ziya Pasha, whose full name was Abdülhamid Ziyaeddin, is born in Istanbul, in 1829 according to the Diyanet. Having entered the palace secretariat in 1856, he opposes Âli Pasha, head of the government, who removes him from it, and becomes one of the Young Ottomans. In 1867 he leaves for Paris, then London, where he publishes the newspaper Hürriyet with Namık Kemal; he continues it in Geneva according to the Diyanet. Back around 1871, he governs several provinces, including Konya and Adana. According to the same encyclopaedia, he translates Rousseau's Émile and Molière's Tartuffe. He dies in Adana on 17 May 1880.

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