Tabanıyassı Mehmed Paşa
Also recorded as Tabaniyassi Mehmed Pasha
Tabanıyassı Mehmed Paşa
- Born
- 1589 · Drama.
- Died
- 1637 · Yedikule Fortress.
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- politician · writer
- Languages
- Turkish · Arabic
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• Honorific Prefix — Tabanıyassı
• Name — Mehmed
• Honorific Suffix — Pasha
• 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
• Born — 1589
• Birthplace — Drama, Ottoman Empire
• Died — 2 February 1637
• Place of death — Yedikule, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Tabanıyassı ("flat-footed") Mehmed Pasha (1589 – 2 February 1637) was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian descent. He was governor of Egypt from September 1628 to October 1630. 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.
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- 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
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