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From this time forward, however, Midhat Pasha's career resolved itself into a series of strange and almost romantic adventures.

While sympathizing with the ideas and aims of the Young Ottomans, he was anxious to restrain their impatience, but the sultan's obduracy led to a coalition between the grand vizier, the war minister and Midhat Pasha, which deposed him in May 1876.

The sultan was murdered in the following month.