[1] Because of his involvement in the Treaty of Sèvres, his collaboration with the occupying Allied powers, and his readiness to acknowledge atrocities against the Armenians, he was declared a traitor and subsequently a persona non grata in Turkey.

Refusing the post of ambassador in London by the sultan Abdülhamid II, he resigned from public service and returned only after two decades, in 1908, as a member of the Senate of the Ottoman Parliament.

"[3] On 11 June 1919, he officially confessed to massacres against Armenians and was a key figure and initiator of the Istanbul trials held directly after World War I to condemn to death the chief perpetrators of the genocide,[4][5][6] who were notably CUP members and long-time rivals of his own Freedom and Accord Party.

[7] Ferid Pasha was an ardent anglophile, who hoped to receive less harsh peace terms by presenting the Ottoman Empire as a more cooperative partner in the Eastern Mediterranean than Greece.

He remained as Grand Vizier until 17 October 1920, forming two different cabinets in between.His second office coincided with the closure of the Ottoman Parliament under pressure from the British and French forces of occupation.

Even after his dismissal, and the formation of a new Ottoman Government under Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, he remained widely disliked (especially in Anatolia) and with the Turkish victory in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), he fled to Europe.

[10] According to an article published in the Tevhid-i Efkâr newspaper at the time of his death: "When [Ferid] he returned from London, he became a foreigner [alafranga] and eventually an enemy of Islam.