CEVAP:

Ahmet Rıza Bey was born in 1858 in İstanbul. He studied agriculture in Grignon France. While he was the director of Bursa Agricultural School, on a visit to an exhibition in 1889 he settled in Paris and from there he sent layihâ (report, opinion article) to Sultan Abdülhamid. Here, he became the head of the Paris branch of İTC and published Meşveret newspaper.