Kara Ahmed Pasha

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Kara
Ahmed
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Kara Ahmed Pasha changing horses at the Siege of Temesvar, 1552.jpg
Kara Ahmed Pasha changing horses at the Siege of Temesvár (1552). Futūhāt-i jamīla . [1]
33rd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office
6 October 1553 –29 September 1555
ChildrenTwo daughters (?)

Kara Ahmed Pasha (executed 29 September 1555) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier between October 1553 and September 1555.

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Career

Ahmed was of Albanian origin. [2] [3] [4] He was brought up in the Topkapı Palace and became the Agha of the Janissaries in 1521. [4] He married Fatma Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Selim I in 1522. [4]

In 1543, while the beylerbey of Rumelia, he participated in the Hungarian campaign. [4] He was appointed the commander-in-chief of the war against Persia in 1548. [4]

He led the Ottoman troops that captured the Hungarian fortress of Temesvár, defended by the troop of István Losonczy, on 26 July 1552. [5] That year, his army took three other castles (Veszprém, Szolnok and Lipova) before failing at the siege of Eger.

Execution of Kara Ahmed Pasa. Hunername H.1524, f.176b. Hunername H.1524, f.176b Kara Ahmed Pasa.jpg
Execution of Kara Ahmed Pasa. Hünername H.1524, f.176b.

After Sultan Suleiman executed his eldest son Şehzade Mustafa in October 1553, there appeared some sort of dissatisfaction and unrest among soldiers who blamed Rüstem Pasha for Mustafa's death. Then Suleiman dismissed Rüstem Pasha and appointed Kara Ahmed Pasha as his Grand Vizier in October 1553. Ahmed Pasha had previously been the second Vizier. But almost two years later, Kara Ahmed was strangled to death on Suleiman's order on 29 September 1555. [7] It is said that the reason for the execution was due to political manoeuvrings of Suleiman's legal wife Hürrem Sultan, who wanted her son-in-law Rüstem to become the Grand Vizier again.[ citation needed ] After the death of Kara Ahmed, Rüstem Pasha became the Grand Vizier (1555–1561) once more.

Legacy

In the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl , Kara Ahmed Pasha is played by Turkish actor Yetkin Dikinciler.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Holliday, Peter J. (2024). Power, Image, and Memory: Historical Subjects in Art. Oxford University Press. p. 137-139. ISBN   978-0-19-090108-0.
  2. ↑ Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire. BRILL. 2020-08-10. p. 109. ISBN   978-90-04-43060-0.
  3. ↑ Kiel, Machiel (1985). Art and Society of Bulgaria in the Turkish Period: A Sketch of the Economic, Juridical, and Artistic Preconditions of Bulgarian Post-Byzantine Art and Its Place in the Development of the Art of the Christian Balkans, 1360/70-1700: a New Interpretation. Netherlands. p. 123. ISBN   978-90-232-2061-9.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Crane (1999-11-23). The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Hüseyin al-Ayvansarayî's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul. BRILL. p. 130. ISBN   978-90-04-49208-0.
  5. ↑ Sadık Müfit Bilge, "Macaristan'da Osmanlı Hakimiyetinin ve İdarî Teşkilatının Kuruluşu ve Gelişmesi", Ankara Üniversitesi Osmanlı Tarihi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi Dergisi (OTAM), Sayı: 11 Sayfa: 033-081, 2000, p. 59. (in Turkish)
  6. ↑ Dankoff, Robert. "Turban and Crown: An Essay in Islamic Civilization". Essay.
  7. ↑ Gibb, H.A.R. (1954). The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill. p. 67. ISBN   9789004059337 . Retrieved 2014-12-26.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)


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