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Deposition of Abdülaziz

When
30 May 1876
Where
Ottoman capital (site not stated in evidence)
Part of
Deposition and death of Abdülaziz; brief reign and deposition of Murad V

Abdülaziz was deposed on 30 May 1876 by ministers led by Midhat Pasha and Hüseyin Avni Pasha on grounds of economic mismanagement.

The deposition occurred on the night of 29–30 May 1876, when a committee led by Midhat Pasha and Minister of War Hüseyin Avni Pasha removed Abdülaziz on the grounds of economic mismanagement. No supplied passage states the specific site of the deposition act itself.

Sources

  1. Abdulaziz Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03
  2. Murad V Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-30

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.