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Edouard Blak Bey a.k.a. Edouard Blacque (1824–1895) was the first minister of the Ottoman Empire to the United States. His father, a Frenchman descended from the Scottish Catholic Black family, was , of Moniteur Ottoman. The Ottoman state sent Blak on scholarship to in France in 1837, making him the first non-Muslim to get such a scholarship. Blak married an American woman whose father was a surgeon; the surgeon was well known at the time.

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  • Edouard Blak Bey a.k.a. Edouard Blacque (1824–1895) was the first minister of the Ottoman Empire to the United States. His father, a Frenchman descended from the Scottish Catholic Black family, was , of Moniteur Ottoman. The Ottoman state sent Blak on scholarship to in France in 1837, making him the first non-Muslim to get such a scholarship. Blak married an American woman whose father was a surgeon; the surgeon was well known at the time. (en)
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  • Edouard Blak Bey a.k.a. Edouard Blacque (1824–1895) was the first minister of the Ottoman Empire to the United States. His father, a Frenchman descended from the Scottish Catholic Black family, was , of Moniteur Ottoman. The Ottoman state sent Blak on scholarship to in France in 1837, making him the first non-Muslim to get such a scholarship. Blak married an American woman whose father was a surgeon; the surgeon was well known at the time. Blak joined the Ottoman Foreign service with posts in Paris, France and Naples, Italy. In the mid-1850s Blak, sensing the , asked the Ottoman government to establish a diplomatic post in the U.S.; at the time the U.S. already had a minister to the empire. Blak's motive for the request stemmed from his marriage. The empire did not reciprocate until 1867. Blak came to the U.S. in 1866, and was accompanied by his new wife, a Levantine Catholic woman, as his American wife had died by then. While in the U.S. she gave birth to a son, named Reşad or Richard. Blak stated that he had a positive view of the U.S. from his term of service. Blak appeared in a photograph with Robert E. Lee and other officials from the U.S. government. Sinan Kuneralp, author of "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States of America, 1867-1917," described this photograph as "one of America's most valuable pictorial documents" and what Blak "is best remembered [for] today". His term as U.S. envoy ended in 1873. He became president of Pera Municipality (now Beyoglu), where he established a system of public parks that got inspiration from Washington, DC. (en)
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