Çeteci Abdullah Pasha ibn Ibrahim al-Husayni al-Jarmaki (also known as Abdullah Pasha al-Jatahji) was an Ottoman statesman. He served terms as the governor of Sivas, Diyarbekir,

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, Adana,

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, Erzurum,

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. Çeteci was born in 1703 in the village of Çermik (also spelled Jarmak), hence his surname "al-Jarmaki".Sharon, 2013, p.
225
/ref> Prior to his political career, Çeteci was a "distinguished field commander" according to Alexis de Tocqueville. He fought in the Ottoman campaigns in the Caucasus in the 1720s and in the war against the

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. During those campaigns he served as a ''levend başağasi'' (commander of a mercenary battalion). He was promoted to ''

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'' of Sivas in 1739. He founded the Çeteci Abdullah Pasha Medresesi, an

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ic school in his hometown of Çermik in 1756-57.

Governor of Damascus

Çeteci entered office in January 1758 after his predecessor

Husayn Pasha ibn Makki Husayn Pasha ibn Makki ( ar, حسين باشا بن مكي, Ḥusayn Bāshā ibn Makkī; known in Turkish as Mekkizâde Hüseyin Paşa) (died 1765) served as the Ottoman ''wali'' (provincial governor) of Damascus (1757) and Marash (1762), and the ...

failed to protect the

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caravan from a massive Bedouin raid.Barbir, 2014, p
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/ref> His first major action was suppressing a revolt by the

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who had staged a revolt during Husayn Pasha's tenure. The revolt in the Midan district was put down, but Çeteci's troops engaged in mass killings and looting against rebellious neighborhoods. Several men, women and children were killed.Grehan, 2007, pp
90
91 The economy in Damascus, already flailing, was severely damaged during the revolt's suppression since Midan was a major bread market for the city. Its bakeries closed as a result of the violence. The events in Midan coincided with bad grain harvest elsewhere in the province, resulting in the depletion of bread in bakeries throughout the city.Grehan, 2007, p
91
/ref> According to a Damascene chronicler at the time, the empty bakeries were surrounded by "great crowds of men, women and children, from whom heart-breaking cries and wails were heard". Çeteci, wary of a repeat of the bread riots of 1757, dispatched troops to guard the bakeries. Çeteci replaced the '' naqib al-ashraf'' (politically privileged descendant of Muhammad) Sayyid Hamza with his rival Ali al-Ajlani. Hamza was exiled to Cyprus on Çeteci's orders and Ajlani remained in the post until his death in 1778. Çeteci was reappointed as governor of Diyarbaker in January 1760. He was succeeded as governor of Damascus by

Muhammad Pasha al-Shalik Muhammad Pasha al-Shalik (also known as Ishalyq Mehmed Pasha, surname also spelled Jalik) was the Ottoman governor of Damascus in 1760, but he was replaced later that year by Uthman Pasha al-Kurji. He served a total of nine months as Wali of Damas ...

, who served for a few months before being replaced by

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.Joudah, 1987, p. 143. Çeteci died later in 1760.

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