Malatyalı Süleyman Pasha | |
Nickname: | Koca |
Office1: | Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire |
Monarch1: | Mehmed IV |
Term Start1: | August 19, 1655 |
Term End1: | February 28, 1656 |
Predecessor1: | Kara Dev Murad Pasha |
Successor1: | Gazi Hüseyin Pasha |
Birth Date: | 1607 |
Birth Place: | Malatya |
Death Date: | February 28, |
Death Place: | Istanbul |
Nationality: | Ottoman of Armenian ethnicity |
Ermeni Suleyman Pasha (Armenian: Էրմենի Սուլեյման Փաշա) also Koca was an Ottoman statesman of Armenian ethnicity. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 19 August 1655 until 28 February 1656.[1]
He attended Enderun school. Served as governor of Sivas then of Erzurum. Married to the daughter of Sultan Ibrahim I, Ayşe Sultan. After being demoted from the position of Grand Vizier, he was appointed as the governor of Bosnia then as kaymakam of Istanbul, Özü, then Istanbul, and Erzurum again. After this last position, he retired and died in Istanbul[2]