Ahmed Esad Paşa (Aḥmed Esʿad Pasha (1828-75 ) , son of Kolağası Mehmed Bey, and father of Celal Esat Arseven, was an Ottoman bureaucrat, whose career included several important positions within the empire and abroad in Europe. Born in Sakız (Chios), he graduated from the Military Academy in Istanbul in 1858 where he became a protégé of the famous Fuad Paşa (Fuʾād Pasha). He was then sent on an official mission to Paris, where he served as military attaché and as director of the Ottoman school there. When Sultan Abdülaziz (Sulṭān