Özet:

The Egyptian Prince and Ottoman statesman Mustafa Fazıl Pasha, the grandson of Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha, is forced to leave the country due to his unending criticism of the Ottoman government. Pasha, who moved to Paris on April 4, 1866, started a serious opposition to the Sublime Porte with the change of the inheritance system in Egypt. The first and most important step of this opposition was a French letter from Paris to Sultan Abdülâziz in order to draw attention to the plight of the Ottoman state. This letter, written shortly before assuming the economic patronage of the New Ottomans and demanding secularism and freedom for his country, reminds the open letter of Giuseppe Mazzini, leader of the Carbonari organization, which aimed to unite Italy under the Republic, to Carlo Alberto, the king of Piemonte, in 1831. The first to draw attention to the interest between the two letters in his book "Reform in the Ottoman Empire (1963)" is the American historian Roderic H. Davison. Kaya Bilgegil draws attention to the aforementioned gap in the literature by saying "A comparison of these two letters should be made." However, this call made by our deceased professor in 1970 has not been answered despite the intervening fifty-one years; both letters were not compared, and Mazzini's letter was not available. Therefore, the main reason behind this study, which we try to evaluate in comparison with the letter written by Giuseppe Mazzini to Carlo Alberto, which is still not translated into our language, and the letter that Mustafa Fazıl Pasha wrote to Sultan Abdulaziz, is the proposal of Kaya Bilgegil.