Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha

Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha, (Ottoman Turkish: داماد کرجی خلیل رفعت پاشا; c. 1795 – 3 March 1856) was an Ottoman admiral and statesman of Georgian origin.

He served in the periods of Mahmud II and Abdulmejid I. Halil Rifat Pasha was a slave, protégé and later rival of Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha.

[1] He then served as grand admiral for four times from 1830 to 1832, 1843–1845, 1847–1848 and 1854–1855,[2] as well as chairman of the Supreme Council of Judicial Ordinances ("Meclis-i Vâlâ") from 1842 to 1845 and 1849–1850.

This placed him in a good position to build and maintain a conservative group, usually in corporation with Hüsrev Pasha.

[3] Halil Rifat had three wives: Hali Rifat Pasha died in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey) on 3 March 1856.