Gürcü Mehmed Pasha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Gürcü Hadım
Mehmed
Honorific-Suffix:Pasha
Office1:Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Monarch1:Mehmet IV
Term Start1:27 September 1651
Term End1:20 June 1652
Predecessor1:Abaza Siyavuş Pasha I
Successor1:Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha
Death Date:1665
Death Place:Buda, Ottoman Hungary
Nationality:Ottoman
Blank1:Origins
Data1:Georgian

Gürcü Mehmed Pasha (died 1665, Buda)[1] was an Ottoman statesman. He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 27 September 1651 and 20 June 1652.[2]

He was the former slave of Koca Sinan Pasha, a previous, prominent grand vizier.

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Notes and References

  1. Uzunçarsılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) Osmanlı Tarihi III. (2). Section, XVI. Yüzyıl Ortalarından XVII. Yüzyıl Sonuna kadar, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu (6th edition, 2011), pp. 402–404
  2. İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 39.