Tabanıyassı Mehmed Pasha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Tabanıyassı
Mehmed
Office1:Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Term Start1:18 May 1632
Term End1:2 February 1637
Monarch1:Murad IV
Predecessor1:Topal Recep Pasha
Successor1:Bayram Pasha
Office2:Ottoman Governor of Egypt
Term Start2:1628
Term End2:1630
Predecessor2:Bayram Pasha
Successor2:Koca Musa Pasha
Birth Date:1589
Birth Place:Drama, Greece, Ottoman Empire
Death Date:2 February 1637
Death Place:Yedikule, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Nationality:Ottoman
Blank1:Ethnicity
Data1:Albanian

Tabanıyassı ("flat-footed") Mehmed Pasha (Born 1589- died 2 February 1637) was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian descent. He was governor of Egypt from September 1628 to October 1630.[1] He served as Grand Vizier from 18 May 1632 to 1637 under Sultan Murat IV. During the early years of his term, he had the support of the sultan because of his services during the campaign in northwestern Iran (known as the Campaign of Revan). However, after sultan's return to Constantinople, Mehmed Pasha failed to defend the fort of Revan (modern Yerevan) against the Persian counterattack, and the sultan dismissed him from his post. In his later years, he was appointed as the governor of Silistra. In 1637, Murat IV became suspicious of Mehmed Pasha and accused him of attempting to start a rebellion in parts of the Empire. The sultan first imprisoned him at the Yedikule Fortress and then executed him by drowning on 2 February 1637.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Murphey, Rhoads (1998) Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700 UCL Press, London page 228, note 69,, citing von Zambaur, Eduard Karl Max (1927) Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour l'histoire de l'Islam Lafaire, Hanover,, page 252
  2. Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sadrazamları, Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009, p.92