He became an aide de camp to the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (r. 1876–1909) at the Yıldız Palace.

[1][2] He was exiled in 1908 to the island Rhodes in Ottoman Greece following the deposition of the sultan to Thessaloniki right after the Young Turk Revolution.

[1] Ragıp Pasha Mansion is located at Cemil Topuzlu Avenue in the Caddebostan neighborhood of Kadıköy district in Istanbul, Turkey, on the shore of the Marmara Sea.

[1] Built in 1906, its architect was Prussian August Carl Friedrich Jasmund,[3] who taught at the Imperial School of Military Engineering (Ottoman Turkish: Mühendishâne-i Berrî-i Hümâyun, today Istanbul Technical University),[1] and designed the Sirkeci railway station.

Although the inner walls are flat, the wooden ceilings are richly decorated, especially with gold leaf handcrafted by Greek artisans.

All the marble of the building was imported from Italy, and the interior flooring arquets from Vienna, Austria.

[clarification needed] Notable people like Vehbi Koç and Abidin Dino were among the tenants.