Mehmed Cavid

Mehmet Cavit
Cavid Bey in 1918
Minister of Finance
In office
July 1909  October 1911
MonarchMehmed V
Preceded byMehmed Rifat Bey
Succeeded byMustafa Nail Bey
In office
March 1914  November 1914
MonarchMehmed V
Preceded byAbdurrahman Vefik Sayın
Succeeded byTalaat Pasha
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
ConstituencySelanik (1908, 1912)
Kale-i Sultaniye (1914)
Personal details
Born1875
Selanik, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died26 August 1926(1926-08-26) (aged 50–51)
Ankara, Turkey
OccupationPolitician, economist, newspaper editor

Mehmet Cavit Bey, Mehmed Cavid Bey or Mehmed Djavid Bey (Ottoman Turkish: محمد جاوید بك; 1875 – 26 August 1926) was a Dönme–Ottoman economist, newspaper editor and leading liberal politician during the dissolution period of the Ottoman Empire. As a Young Turk and a member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) he had positions in government after the constitution was re-established. In the beginning of the Republican period, he was controversially tried and executed for his alleged involvement in an assassination attempt against Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.