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Hüseyin Avni Pasha
Hüseyin Avni
Pasha
was an
Ottoman
governor-general
and
statesman
.
He was
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
from
15 February
1874 to
26 April
1875. He was killed by Çerkess Hassan the
younger brother
of
Neşerek Kadın Efendi
, who
accused
him of the murder of Ottoman
Sultan Abdülaziz
, on
15 June
1876 during a
cabinet meeting
of Ottoman
Sultan Murad
V at the residence of
Midhat Pasha
near
Beyazıt
in
Fatih
,
Istanbul
. The
foreign affairs minister
Mehmed Rashid Pasha
was also killed in the attack.