İbrahim Hakkı was born to a
Turkish family in
Istanbul in 1863. His father was
Sakızlı Mehmed Remzi Efendi, the President of the Istanbul Municipality Council (
İstanbul Şehremaneti Meclis Reisi). He graduated from the
Mülkiye Mektebi in 1882. In 1884, he became the translator of the
Mabeyn-i hümayun. He translated detective novels for Sultan
Abdulhamid II. He also gave lectures at the Law and Trade Schools. In 1894, he was appointed as the Legal Counselor of the
Sublime Porte (
Hukuk Müşavirliği). He served as the chairman and member of approximately 30 diplomatic commissions. He was sent to
Crete and the
United States before the declaration of the
Second Constitutional Era. he resigned from the ministry in December 1908. He assumed the duty of the Ottoman Empire's ambassador to Rome. He continued in this position until the end of 1909. After
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha resigned from the Grand Viziership, İbrahim Hakkı became the Grand Vizier in 1910. He also served as the
Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Public Works. He resigned from the ministry when
Italy invaded
Ottoman Tripolitania. Hakki Pasha also spent considerable amounts of time in
London between February 1913 and the outbreak of
World War I, working on negotiations concerning the
Berlin-Baghdad Railway and a settlement for the
Second Balkan War. During that visit, Hakki Pasha met with King
George V. He returned to
Istanbul when
World War I began. He was appointed as ambassador to Berlin in 1915. Additionally, he was appointed as a member of the
Senate in 1917. He served in the Ottoman delegation of the
Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty. He died shortly after returning to Berlin on July 29, 1918. His body was brought to Istanbul and buried in the Yahya Efendi Lodge. İbrahim Hakkı Pasha, who had works in the field of science as well as being a statesman, wrote several textbooks. He was awarded the
Order of Karađorđe's Star. == Works ==