Hüseyin Avni Pasha (; 1820 – 15 June 1876) was an Ottoman

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and

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. He was

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from 15 February 1874 to 26 April 1875. He was killed by Çerkez Hasan the younger brother of Neşerek Kadın Efendi, who accused him of the murder of

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Abdülaziz Abdulaziz (; ; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was 1876 Ottoman coup d'état, overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother ...

, on 15 June 1876 during a

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at the residence of

Midhat Pasha Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha (; 1822 – 26 April 1883) was an Ottoman politician, reformist, and statesman. He was the author of the Constitution of the Ottoman Empire. Midhat was born in Istanbul and educated from a private . In July 1872, he ...

near Beyazıt in

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. The foreign affairs minister

Mehmed Rashid Pasha Mehmed Rashid Pasha (, ; 1824–15 June 1876) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman statesman who served as the ''wāli, vali'' (governor) of Syria Vilayet in 1866–1871 and as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ottoman Empire), minister of foreign affairs o ...

was also killed in the attack.

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