Ziya Pasha, the pseudonym of Abdul Hamid Ziyaeddin (1829, Constantinople – 17 May 1880, Adana), was an Ottoman writer, translator and administrator. He was one of the most important authors during the Tanzimat period of the Ottoman Empire, along with İbrahim Şinasi and Namık Kemal.

He held several offices in the state. From 1865, he was a leading member of the reformist secret society known as the Young Ottomans. In 1867, he went with Namık Kemal to Paris and London, where he published a newspaper called Hürriyet (Freedom).

Ziya Pasha

His return to the Ottoman Empire was followed by tenures as governor of Cyprus, Amasya, Konya, Aleppo, and Adana, where he died in 1880.

Ziya Pasha

Works

Terkîb-i Bend

Zafername

Şi'ir ve inşâ

Hârâbat

References

1880 deaths

1820s births

Politicians from the Ottoman Empire

19th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire

19th-century translators

Ottoman governors of Aleppo

19th-century pseudonymous writers

Ziya Pasha