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- ↑ Danişmend (1971), p. 58. (Turkish)
- ↑ Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sdarazamları, Neden Kitap, İstanbul,2009, ISBN 978-975-254-278-5 p.232
- ↑ Mehmet Süreyya (1996) [1890], Nuri Akbayar; Seyit A. Kahraman (eds.), Sicill-i Osmanî (in Turkish), Beşiktaş, Istanbul: Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, p. 80
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