Mustafa Zihni Pasha was a high Ottoman

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 official who held a number of ministerial posts and a founding member of the nationalist Kürt Teali Cemiyeti society.

Early life

Mustafa Zihni Bey was born in 1838 in Sulaimaniyah a town in the Mosul Province

Mosul Province

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 of the Ottoman empire. He was the nephew of a Kurdish Baban

Baban

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 prince. He lived on his estate in Constantinople

Constantinople

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 with his three sons, Ahmet Naim Bey, Ismail Hakki Bey

İsmail Hakkı Bey

İsmail Hakkı Bey was an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army.-Medals and Decorations:*Order of Osminieh 3rd class with Sword*Gallipoli Star *Silver Medal of Liyakat...

 and Huseyin Shukru Bey.

Posts

• President of the Council of State
• Minister of Commerce and Public Works
• Vali (governor) of the provinces of Hijaz, Ioannina
  Ioannina
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  , Adana
  Adana Vilayet
  The Vilayet of Adana was a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in the south-east of Asia Minor, which included the ancient Cilicia.At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of , while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 gave the population as 402,439...
  
   and Aleppo
  Vilayet of Aleppo
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• Member of the Ottoman chamber of notables
• Chief of naval operations
• Head inspector of the army
• Sultan's special representative to Crete
• Chief secretary (Mektupcu) of the Baghdad Province
• Sub-governor (Mutasarnf) of Burdur
  Burdur
  Burdur , is a city southwestern Turkey and the seat of the Burdur Province of Turkey. It is located at , on the shore of Lake Burdur...
  
  , a sanjak
  Sanjak
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   within the province of Konya