Yusuf Franko Pasha

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Yusuf Franko Pasha.

Yusuf Pasha Franko (also Youssef Coussa , * 1855 in Istanbul , d. 1933 ) was an Ottoman statesman and cartoonist Greek - Catholic origin and one of the last foreign minister of the Ottoman Empire.

Yusuf Franko was born in Istanbul in 1855 as the son of Pasha Nasri Franco Coussa (Franko Kusa). He came from a Christian family and was of the Catholic faith, more precisely a member of the Melkite Church . He received his education in the Mutessarifat Cebel-i Lübnan (today's Lebanon ). He later worked in the Foreign Ministry (Hariciye nezâreti) of the Ottoman Empire. At the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899 he represented the Ottoman Empire as a delegate. In the Foreign Ministry he rose to the so-called Kalem-i Mahsus (modern Turkish: Özel Kalem Müdürü ) and received the status of vizier (vezir) . On June 8, 1907, he succeeded Władysław Czajkowski ( Muzaffer Pascha , son of Michał Czajkowski ) Governor General of the Mutessarifat Lebanonberg. According to the international treaty Règlement Organique , since the civil unrest of 1860 and the intervention of the international community , this office was withheld exclusively to Ottoman citizens of the Catholic faith. In December 1912, Yusuf Franko Pascha was replaced as governor of Mount Lebanon by the Armenian Ohannes Pascha (Ohannes Kouyoumdjian). On December 18, 1918, Yusuf Franko was Ottoman Post and Telegraph Minister and on February 24, 1919 Foreign Minister (Hariciye nazırı) , which he remained until March of that year. His successor as Foreign Minister was Damat Ferid Pasha .

Yusuf Franko Pascha was married to the daughter of a French banker and had two children. In addition to his work as a bureaucrat, he was also known as a cartoonist. His stepbrother Naum Pascha (Naoum Coussa) was also governor of Mount Lebanon from 1892 to 1902.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ İstanbul İz Bırakan Yusuf Franko Paşa Hakkında Bilgi. (No longer available online.) May 11, 2013; Archived from the original on May 11, 2013 ; accessed on March 19, 2018 .
  2. ^ The Long Peace. Accessed March 19, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Sinan Kuneralp: Son Dönem Osmanlı Erkan ve Ricali (1839-1922) Prosopografik Rehber. ISIS Press, Istanbul 1999, ISBN 978-428-118-1 .
  4. ↑ İSTİKLAL HARBİ'MİZDE PTT. ( Memento from September 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) September 23, 2014. (PDF)
  5. ^ Yusuf Franko Paşa, Ali Birinci: Meçhul Bir Karikatur Üstadımız. In: Osmanlı Basın Yaşamı Sempozyumu. Ankara 1999, pp. 169-174.
personal data
SURNAME Yusuf Franko Pasha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Youssef Coussa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman statesman and cartoonist of Greek Catholic origin and one of the last foreign ministers of the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH 1933