Early in his career, Izzet Ahmed Pasha was first kapıcıbaşı (master of ceremonies) at the imperial palace in Constantinople (modern Istanbul) and later the voivode of the Sanjak of Sivas.
He was then made a ferik (Lieutenant General) in the Ottoman army.
[2] When his father-in-law was dismissed from the governorship of Baghdad, the decree that dismissed him cited Izzet Ahmed Pasha as a source of complaints against alleged abuses of his father-in-law's administration, most likely pointing to a fallout or disagreement between the two, or a political plot against Ali Rıza Pasha by his son-in-law.
[2] Izzet Ahmed Pasha retired from public office in 1870.
He died six years later on 20 February 1876 and was buried in Haydarpaşa Cemetery in Istanbul.