Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Paşa, also Sahid Mehemet Effendi or Mehmed Said Efendi, was a Georgian

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 Ottoman

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 statesman

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. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

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Grand Vizier, in Turkish Vezir-i Azam or Sadr-ı Azam , deriving from the Arabic word vizier , was the greatest minister of the Sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himself...

 between October 25, 1755-April 1, 1756.

He was a son of Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi

Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi

Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi Efendi, also Mehmed Efendi or Mehemet Effendi, was a Georgian Ottoman statesman who was delegated as ambassador by the Sultan Ahmed III to Louis XV's France in 1720. He is remembered for his account of his embassy mission .Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi was born in Edirne. His...

 ("Mehemet Effendi"), ambassador of the Ottoman Empire

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 to France in 1720-1721. He already accompanied his father during this first mission in France in 1720-1721, as his personal secretary. He is said to have enjoyed French life tremendously, and ended up speaking French fluently.

Sahid Mehemet Effendi was himself dispatched for an embassy in Paris

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

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 in 1733 and Poland

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, which led to his writing a sefaretname

Sefâretnâme

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. In Sweden, he succeeded Mustapha Aga

Mustapha Aga

Mustapha Aga, also Kozbekçi Mustapha Ağa, was an Ottoman Empire 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 mission...

as ambassador.