Mehmed Rauf Pasha bin Abdi Pasha

Mehmed Rauf Pasha bin Abdi Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: مشير محمد رؤوف پاشا بن عبدى پاشا چركسى), (born 1832, Istanbul – died 1908, Istanbul) Ottoman soldier and statesman of Circassian origin.

In 1849, at the rank of lieutenant, he accompanied Mushir Omar Pasha during the Bosnian Rebellion and the Crimean War.

After returning to Istanbul, in 1868, he was promoted to the rank of Mirliva and traveled in Europe with Sultan Abdülaziz as his aide-de-camp.

[3] After the ascension of Abdul Hamid II to the throne, he became the Minister of the Navy for the second time and then Serasker and Artillery Commander.

After the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), he was taken back to Edirne in the capacity of governor and Mushir of the Second Army.