Kemankeş Kara Mustafa Pasha

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In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Mustafa, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name.
Kemankeş Kara
Mustafa
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office
23 December 1638 – 31 January 1644
MonarchsMurad IV
İbrahim
Preceded byTayyar Mehmed Pasha
Succeeded bySemiz Mehmed Pasha
Kapudan Pasha
In office
17 October 1635 – 22 December 1638
Preceded byGazi Hüseyin Pasha
Succeeded byGazi Hüseyin Pasha
Personal details
Born1592
Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–39)

Kemankeş Kara Mustafa Pasha (

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
.

Early life

Mustafa was born to an

Agha of the Janissaries (yeniçeri ağası) in 1635. On 17 October 1635, he was appointed Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Navy).[2] Nevertheless, he participated in the 1638 Capture of Baghdad far from the sea. On 24 December 1638, following the death of the then-Grand Vizier Tayyar Mehmet Pasha during the siege, Sultan Murad IV
appointed Kemankeş Mustafa as the new Grand Vizier, the highest post of the empire after the Sultan.

As a grand vizier

Following the Ottoman conquest of Baghdad, Kemankeş Mustafa represented the Ottoman side in the consequent peace talks. The resulting Treaty of Zuhab, signed on 17 May 1639 between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, provided the outline for the border between Iran and the states of Turkey and Iraq that continues to be the basis of present-day borders between the three nations.

Murad IV died on 9 February 1640, and Kemankeş Mustafa continued as a Grand Vizier during

better source needed] Using severe methods,[clarification needed] he ended the rebellions, balanced the budget, and reduced the number of soldiers. He also used his power to subdue and cause the death of other able statesmen whom he considered to be potential competitors for his post.[4]

Death

Kemankeş Mustafa made many enemies. His most important opposition was a kind of triumvirate in the palace, formed by Kösem Sultan (the sultan's mother), Turhan Sultan (the sultan's haseki), a charlatan named Djindji Khodja, and a vizier named Semiz Mehmed Pasha. They began to criticize Kemankeş Mustafa vehemently. Although he gave his resignation several times, it was not accepted by the Sultan. However, the Sultan, who was initially pleased with Kemankeş Mustafa, finally dismissed him on 31 January 1644.[5] A few hours later, he was executed.[6]

Legacy

In 1640, Mustafa Pasha converted a

Byzantine one, was probably the Monastery of Philanthropos[7] but was converted to the Latin cult and renamed Santa Maria di Constantinopoli during the reign of Mehmed II.[8]

Around the same time, Mustafa Pasha commissioned another mosque, the eponymous Kemankeş Kara Mustafa Paşa Mosque, to be built in Karaköy, a former Genoese trading colony. The site of the mosque was previously occupied by the Genoese Saint Antonio Church, which was appropriated in 1606 and demolished thereafter. The mosque was mostly rebuilt in 1771.[9]

In Istanbul, the present-day administrative neighborhood division encompassing Karaköy is named after him.

Popular culture

References

  1. ^ History page of Yıldızeli mayor (in Turkish) Archived 1 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ An essay on Kemankeş Mustafa in the periodical Mortar (in Turkish) Archived 6 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ISBN 975-6480-21-1
    p 22
  4. ^ Prof. Yaşar Yüce-Prof. Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi Cilt III, AKDTYKTTK Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991 p 85-87
  5. ISBN 978-975-254-278-5
    p 96
  6. Joseph von Hammer
    : Osmanlı Tarihi cilt II (condensation: Abdülkadir Karahan), Milliyet yayınları, İstanbul. p 231
  7. ^ Historical mosques (in Turkish)
  8. ISBN 978-3-8030-1022-3
    . p 188
  9. ^ "KARAKÖY KEMANKEŞ MUSTAFA PASA CAMII" (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 November 2023.

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Military offices
Preceded by Kapudan Pasha
17 October 1635 – 22 December 1638 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

23 December 1638 – 31 January 1644 		Succeeded by
Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha
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