Mohamed-Sayd Halet Effendi (1761–1822) was a Ottoman Empire

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 Foreign Minister

Foreign minister

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 and ambassador to Paris

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 from 1802 to 1806. He was still ambassador

Ambassador

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 to the court of Napoleon I

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 in 1806. He was succeeded in this role by Muhib Efendi

Muhib Efendi

Muhib Efendi was an Ottoman Empire ambassador to the court of Napoleon I in Paris in the early 19th century, between 1806 to 1811.In February 1806, following Napoleon's remarkable victory in the Battle of Austerlitz in December 1805 and the ensuing dismemberment of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman...

, who was ambassador from 1806 to 1811.

In 1819 Halet Efendi brought the attention of Sultan Mahmud II

Mahmud II

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 to the power-grabbing activities of Ali Pasha

Ali Pasha

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 in Ottoman Europe. As Mahmud II sent an army against Ali Pasha, the latter responded by encouraging a rebellion against Ottoman power in Greece

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. These event led to the catastrophic Greek insurrection in 1821. Halet Efendi was thus considered as partly responsible for the rebellion, and was strangled and beheaded in Konya

Konya

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in November 1822.