Çerkes Mehmed Ali Pasha (; died 28 January 1625) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1624 to 1625.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish) Mehmed was of Circassian origins, hence his epithet. He was educated in the

Enderun School The Enderun School ( ota, اندرون مکتب, Enderûn Mektebi) was a palace school and boarding school within Topkapi Palace. It was mostly for Princes of the court and the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Students here were primarily rec ...

in Istanbul. At one point, he served as the armorer and bodyguard ( tr, silahdar) of the

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. He died of illness on 28 January 1625 in

Tokat Tokat is the capital city of Tokat Province of Turkey in the mid-Black Sea region of Anatolia. It is located at the confluence of the Tokat River (Tokat Suyu) with the Yeşilırmak. In the 2018 census, the city of Tokat had a population of 155,00 ...

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17th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire People from the Ottoman Empire of Circassian descent 1625 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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