Ahmet Tevfik Pasha Ahmet Tevfik Pasha ( February 11 , 1845 – October 8 , 1936 ) ( , Ahmet Tevfik Okday after the Surname Law of 1934 ) was the last Ottoman grand vizier . He held the office three times , the first April 13 , 1909 to May 5 , 1909 under Abdulhamid II , and from November 11 , 1918 to March 3 , 1919 , and from October 21 , 1920 to November 4 , 1922 under Mehmed V Reşad during the Allied occupation of Istanbul . Biography . Ahmet Tevfik was born on February 11 , 1845 in Istanbul . His father , Ferik Ismail Pasha , was a Crimean Tatar descended from the Giray dynasty . Ahmet Tevfik entered military service but left after becoming a junior officer , entering government bureaucracy training . After 1872 , he held various foreign ministry posts . After serving as an ambassador in Rome , Vienna , St . Petersburg , and Athens , he served as the Ottoman chargé d ' affaires and ambassador to Germany in Berlin from 1885 to 1895 . After returning to Istanbul , he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs ( Turkish : Hariciye Nazırı ) from " " 1899 to 1909 . After the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Era in 1908 , Ahmet Tevfik Pasha was appointed to a seat in the revived ( Turkish : " Ayan Meclisi " ) , the upper house of the also - revived parliament , the General Assembly ( Turkish : " Meclis - i Mebusan " ) . While serving as chargé d ' affaires in Athens , he met and married Elisabeth Tschumi , a Swiss woman working as a governess to the children of another diplomat . They had five children together . First term as grand vizier . Ahmet Tevfik Pasha ' s first period of office as grand vizier was one of the direct outcomes of the failed counterrevolutionary 31 March Incident ( which actually occurred on April 13 ) in 1909 . When the absolutists declared the countercoup , they demanded and received the resignation of the previous grand vizier Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha . Although their preferred replacement was not Ahmet Tevfik Pasha , his appointment at least fulfilled their demands for the removal of Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha . Ahmet Tevfik Pasha , who had only reluctantly taken up the post at the urging of the pro - absolutist sultan Abdülhamid II , formed a government made up of mostly non - partisan and neutral members and took precautions to limit the growth of violence that had begun in Istanbul and Adana . After the " Hareket Ordusu " ( English : Army of Action ) entered Istanbul and restored the constitutional government , and Abdülhamid II was deposed , Ahmet Tevfik Pasha resigned and Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha returned as grand vizier . Second term as grand vizier . After World War I and the resignation of Ahmet Izzet Pasha , Ahmet Tevfik Pasha was again appointed grand vizier on November 11 , 1918 . Two days after his term began , the Allies began their occupation of Istanbul . The Allies pressured sultan Mehmet VI to dissolve parliament on December 21 , 1918 , and for a few weeks , Ahmet Tevfik Pasha ' s government was dissolved as well . He formed his government again on January 12 , 1919 , but after the invaders forced him to dissolve it once more , he resigned as grand vizier on March 3 , 1919 . Paris Peace Conference . After his second term as grand vizier , Ahmet Tevfik Pasha became the head of the ( which had not yet been dissolved , unlike the lower house ) . He then served as the president of the Ottoman delegation to the Paris Peace Conference ending World War I . Ahmet Tevfik Pasha ' s delegation refused the heavy terms of the proposed treaty , but another delegation sent by the Grand Vizier Damat Ferit Pasha accepted the terms and signed the Treaty of Sevres . Third term as grand vizier . On October 21 , 1920 , he was once more appointed grand vizier , replacing Damat Ferit Pasha . Meanwhile , the Turkish National Movement had established another government in Ankara , proclaiming itself to be the sole government of the nation and rejecting the sultanate . Ahmet Tevfik Pasha offered the nationalist Ankara government to join his monarchical Istanbul government to form one body at the Conference of London in 1921 . However , the leader in Ankara , Mustafa Kemal , refused the offer , and the two governments sent separate delegations to the conference , with Ahmet Tevfik Pasha himself leading the Istanbul delegation and Bekir Sami Kunduh leading the Ankara delegation . However , once he arrived in London , Ahmet Tevfik Pasha , in a surprising move , proclaimed that the Ankara government indeed was the sole rightful government of Turkey and allowed Bekir Sami to be the only representative at the conference . After the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate on November 1 , 1922 , Ahmet Tevfik Pasha met with his government . With the sultan Mehmet VI gone and unable to find a reason to hold their offices any longer , the government began to resign one by one , and Ahmet Tevfik Pasha resigned three days after the abolition on November 4 , 1922 . Later life and death . After the 1934 Surname Law , he adopted the last name " Okday . " He died on October 8 , 1936 in Istanbul and is interred at the Edirnekapı Martyr ' s Cemetery . His biography , written by his grandson Şefik Okday , was published in 1986 and is titled " My Grandfather , the Last Grand Vizier , Ahmet Tevfik Pasha " ( Turkish : " Büyükbabam Son Sadrazam Ahmet Tevfik Paşa " ) .