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Mehmed Pasha or Mehmet Pasha may refer to:
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Dervish Pasha could refer to the following Ottoman statesmen:
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- ↑ İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish)
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