Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Pasha (died October 1761), earlier in his life known as Mehmed Said Efendi (sometimes spelled Sahid Mehemet Effendi in France), was an Ottoman statesman and diplomat. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from October 25, 1755, to April 1, 1756. He was a son of

Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi Efendi (ca. 1670–1732), also Mehmed Efendi (sometimes spelled Mehemet Effendi in France), was an Ottoman statesman who was delegated as ambassador by the Sultan Ahmed III to Louis XV's France in 1720. He is remembere ...

, ambassador of the

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in 1720–21. Mehmed Said was of

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İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı'', Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 60. descent through his father. His epithet ''Yirmisekizzade'', meaning "son of twenty-eight" in Turkish, is a reference to his father's own epithet ''Yirmisekiz'' ("twenty-eight"), a reference to Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi's membership in the 28th battalion (''orta'') of the

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early in his life. He already accompanied his father during this first mission as his personal secretary. He is said to have enjoyed the French culture and lifestyle tremendously, and ended up speaking French fluently. Mehmed Said was himself dispatched for an embassy in

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in 1742, as well as another more historically significant one in

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in 1733 and

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, which led to his writing a sefaretname like his father. In Sweden, he succeeded

Mustapha Aga Kozbekçi Mustafa Ağa, known as Mustapha Aga in Sweden, was an Ottoman ambassador to the Swedish court in 1727. One of his missions was to obtain a repayment of a royal debt which had been incurred by Charles XII of Sweden, but he failed in his ...

as ambassador.Imber, p.53
/ref> He briefly served as the Shaykh al-Islam between 1749 and 1750. Jauch Reception of the Turkish envoy

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* Fatma Müge Göçek ''East encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century'' Oxford University Press US, 1987 * Colin Imber, Keiko Kiyotaki, Rhoads Murphey ''Frontiers of Ottoman studies: state, province, and the West'' I.B.Tauris, 2005 1761 deaths 18th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire 18th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire 18th-century diplomats 18th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt Georgians from the Ottoman Empire Ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire to France Political people from the Ottoman Empire Islam in France Muslims from Georgia (country) Ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire to Sweden Ottoman governors of Egypt Shaykh al-Islāms Sheikh-ul-Islams of the Ottoman Empire {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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