Damat Mahmud Jalaluddin Pasha (b. Istanbul 1853 - d. Brussels (17 January 1903) was an Ottoman statesman, poet and writer.

[1] He lost his father at a young age and after special education and two years in the Paris embassy, improved himself and learned French.

He was for several years Minister of Justice in the Ottoman Empire, but was critical of Sultan Abdul Hamid's governance, never missing an occasion to speak out.

Eventually he had had enough of being followed and spied on, so in 1899, he took both of his sons and fled to Europe, living successively in the United Kingdom, Italy and France before he died in Belgium.

[6] His widow survived revolution and exile of the Imperial family in 1924, and had a difficult life in France until she died in 1931.