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His Grand Vizier, Mehmed Sokollu, a Serbian devsirme from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, controlled much of state affairs, and two years after Selim's accession succeeded in concluding at Constantinople an honourable treaty ( 17 February 1568 ) with the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II, whereby the Emperor agreed to pay an annual " present " of 30, 000 ducats and essentially granted the Ottomans authority in Moldavia and Walachia.
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The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.
The Grand Vizier, Kara Mustafa Pasha – encouraged by Imre Thököly's Magyar rebellion – had invaded Hungary with between 100, 000 – 200, 000 men ; within two months approximately 90, 000 were beneath Vienna's walls.
The Grand Vizier, Suluieman Pasha, was executed and Sultan Mehmed IV, deposed.
For the loss of some 2, 000 dead and wounded, Eugene inflicted approximately 25, 000 casualties on his enemy – including the Grand Vizier, Elmas Mehmed Pasha – annihilating the Turkish army.
The discontent grew to open rebellion, fed by both Ottoman and British money and support: Bashir II fled, the Ottoman empire reasserted control and Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha, whose sole term as Grand Vizier ran from 1839 to 1841, appointed another member of the Shihab family, who styled himself Bashir III.
Gaining widespread recognition, he was appointed court physician to the Grand Vizier Al Qadi al Fadil, then to Sultan Saladin, after whose death he remained a physician to the royal family.
The power had only been maintained under Selim II by the genius of the all-powerful Grand Vizier Mehmed Sokollu who remained in office until his assassination in October 1579.
The Empire fell into anarchy ; the Safavid Empire invaded Iraq almost immediately, Northern Anatolia erupted in revolts, and in 1631 the Janissaries stormed the palace and killed the Grand Vizier, among others.
A highly ambitious plan to counter this conceived by Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier under Selim II, in the shape of a Don-Volga canal ( begun June 1569 ), combined with an attack on Astrakhan, failed, the canal being abandoned with the onset of winter.
In discussions with a Venetian minister, the Ottoman Grand Vizier commented: " In capturing Cyprus from you, we have cut off one of your arms ; in defeating our fleet you have merely shaved off our beard ".
This continued under his son and successor Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed ( Grand Vizier 1661 – 1676 ).
This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha in May 1683 led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683 – 1687.
In 1726, Ibrahim Muteferrika convinced the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha, the Grand Mufti, and the clergy on the efficiency of the printing press, and later submitted a request to Sultan Ahmed III, who granted Muteferrika the permission to publish non-religious books ( despite opposition from some calligraphers and religious leaders.
* 1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
The recruits were trained according to their individual abilities, and employed in posts ranging from professional soldier to Grand Vizier.
In 1524 he captained the ship that took the Ottoman Grand Vizier Pargalı İbrahim Pasha to Egypt.
As a result, in 1533, Suleiman ordered his Grand Vizier Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha to lead an army into Asia where he retook Bitlis and occupied Tabriz without resistance.
The Ottoman Empire | Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, awaits the arrival of his Grand Vizier Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha at Buda, in the year 1529.
Ibrahim Pasha rose to Grand Vizier in 1523 and commander-in-chief of all the armies.
During his thirteen years as Grand Vizier, his rapid rise to power and vast accumulation of wealth had made Ibrahim many enemies among the Sultan's court.
Yet Mustafa was recognised as the most talented of all the brothers and was supported by Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, who was by this time Suleiman's Grand Vizier.
* Wasir or Grand Vizier
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Among these were important historical figures, including Iljaz Hoxha, Hamza Kastrioti, Davud Pasha, Zağanos Pasha, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha ( head of the Köprülü family of Grand Viziers ), the Bushati family, Sulejman Pasha, Edhem Pasha, Nezim Frakulla, Ali Pasha of Tepelena, Haxhi Shekreti, Hasan Zyko Kamberi, Ali Pasha of Gucia, Mehmet Ali ruler of Egypt and Emin Pasha.
* October 12 – Mehmed Sokollu, Grand Vizier of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II ( b. 1505 )
* Mehmed Köprülü becomes Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
Mehmet VI ruled as His Imperial Majesty, The Grand Sultan Mehmed VI Vahid ed-din, Emperor of the Ottomans, Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Universe.
The Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished the Sultanate on 1 November 1922, and Mehmed was expelled from Constantinople, aboard the British warship Malaya on 17 November.
* Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
According to the verbal tradition of the Bulgrians, Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha ( 1656 – 1661 ) threatened the Pomaks of Chepino Valley that he would execute them if they didn't turn to Islam.
Grand Vizier Mehmed Köprülü, after the mass Islamization, destroyed 218 churches and 336 chapels in the areas of Pomaks.
Sultan Selim II's Chief Minister, the Grand Vizier Mehmed Sokullu, argued to the Venetian emissary Marcantonio Barbaro that the Christian triumph at Lepanto made no lasting harm to the Ottoman Empire, while the capture of Cyprus by the Ottomans in the same year was a significant blow, saying that:
He was strangled in Constantinople at the behest of the Grand Vizier Mevlevî Mehmed Paşa ( Sofu Mehmed Pasha ).
Again his brother, Mehmed I, who ended the Ottoman Interregnum, also held his post with a fief from Tamerlane ; he took the title Sovereign of the House of Osman, Khan of Khans, Grand Sultan of Anatolia and Rumelia, and of the Cities of Adrianople and Philipopolis.
His full style was Sultan Mehmed II Khan, Fatih Ghazi ' Abu ' l Fath ( Victorious Conqueror, Father of Conquest ), Padishah, Sovereign of the House of Osman, Emperor of Rome, Grand Sultan of Anatolia and Rumelia, Khan of Khans of the Two Lands and the Two Seas, Emperor of the three Cities of Constantinople, Edirne and Bursa.
The CUP-led government was headed by Minister of the Interior and Grand Vizier, Mehmed Talaat ( 1874 – 1921 ).
Köprülü Mehmed Pasha was the most powerful Ottoman Grand Vizier of Albanian origins.
" Here at 10 – 21 July 1774 was signed the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca between the representative of Catherine the Great, Count Peter Rumyantsev and the representative of Sultan Abdul Hamid I, the Grand Vizier Musul Zade Mehmed Pasha.
The Ottoman Empire would also find that its new Grand Visor Mehmed Emin Pasha was incompetent militarily.
From the capital of Bucharest the Russians fanned out through the principality only later being challenged by Grand Vizier Mehmed Emin Pasha at Kartal on Aug 1 1770.
Some members of those families became prominent military leaders of the Ottoman armies, governors, Grand Viziers, Sultan's sons-in-law and the mother of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror.
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