Mehmed Cavid Bey, Mehmet Cavit or Mehmed Djavid 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.
- Occupation
- economist, politician, journalist, writer
- Position held
- Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire, finance minister
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire, Turkey
- Born
