Abstract:

In this study Şerif Paşa’s opposition to the İttihat and Terakki (Committee of Union and Progress) and his pamphlet will be handled. Şerif Pasha, whose real name was Mehmet, was born in Usküdar in 1865. His father was Said Pasha, who had some significant official service during the Tanzimat period of the Ottoman Empire. After having a qualified education, Şerif Pasha starts his career in the office of foreign affairs. Abdulhamit II appoints him as the ambassador of Stockholm in order to keep him away from the governmental centre due to his liberty thoughts. While doing this service he gets in some good contacts with Jon Turks (Young Turks). After the announcement of Mesrutiyet II, he is appointed as the head of Pangaltı Headquarter of the Ittihat and Terakki Committee, however he expects a better assignment. The committee refuses his expectation. After the 31 March event, it is observed Şerif Pasha’s reporting the committee in the Yıldız palace. These two cases lead him to leave the Committee and turn him into the focus statement of opposition. After the World War I he participates in the Paris Peace Conference as the delegate of Kurds. His negotiation with the Armenian Nubor there brings about a reaction. He is protested by the Kurdish people. Upon the suppressions resigns from the position the delegate, which is his final political movement. Secondly in the study His pamphlet “Şura-yı Ümmet yahud Numune-i Denaet” (Islam community or the model of shamefulness) which is written upon a reaction to a published article on the Şura-yı Ümmet newspaper about himself, was scrutinized in respect of its form and the content

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