Çerkes Mehmed Pasha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Çerkes
Mehmed Ali
Honorific-Suffix:Pasha
Office1:Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Term Start1:3 April 1624
Term End1:28 January 1625
Monarch1:Murat IV
Predecessor1:Kemankeş Kara Ali Pasha
Successor1:Hafız Ahmed Pasha
Birth Date: 1557
Death Date:28 January 1625 (aged 67-68)
Death Place:Tokat (in modern Turkey)
Nationality:Ottoman
Blank1:Origins
Data1:Circassian
Alma Mater:Enderun School
Rank:Silahdar

Çerkes Mehmed Ali Pasha (; died 28 January 1625) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1624 to 1625.[1]

Mehmed was of Circassian origins, hence his epithet. He was educated in the Enderun School in Istanbul. At one point, he served as the armorer and bodyguard (Turkish: silahdar) of the sultan. He died of illness on 28 January 1625 in Tokat.

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Notes and References

  1. İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish)