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Mehmed Esad Saffet Pasha: Ahmed Midhat was a close friend of Saffet

Pasha, a Minister of Education during the rule of Abdul Hamid II. Upon or-
ders from the Sultan, Saffet Pasha appointed Hasan Tahsini as the rector of

Istanbul University, who was another evolutionist. He was one of the people
who completely changed the Ottoman educational system and supposedly

brought European standards to education (to put it more accurately, he in-
corporated Darwinism into the education system). He was one of the founders

of Galatasaray High School, one of the centers of Darwinist education at the
time. Sedat Simavi, the founder of the Hürriyet newspaper, is Saffet Pasha's

grandson. Saffet Pasha was also one of the plotters of the coup against Sul-
tan Abdülaziz in 1876.

Ahmed Rıza: Supported the 'world citizen' view of positivism. Due to his
anglophile character and emulation of English style in the way he dressed, he

was also known as the English Ahmed Rıza.

Salih Zeki: Defended the materialist views of Auguste Comte in Robert
College, Darüşşafaka and Darülfünûn, where he lectured.

Rıza Tevfik: Considered Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin as his

teachers and promoted Darwinism in his articles.

Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın: Became a materialist

while studying at the School of Political Sciences.
He considered the theory of evolution as a re-

quirement of materialism and rejected Cre-
ation.

Ahmet Şuayb: Worked as a lecturer
at the School of Law and Istanbul Uni-
versity, and supported the views of

Comte.

Abdullah Cevdet: After being intro-

duced to evolutionist ideas at the Medical
Ahmed Cevdet
School, Abdullah Cevdet proselytized his ma-

terialist, evolutionist and atheist views for the fol-
lowing 28 years through his magazine İçtihad (The Opin-

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