Boynuyaralı Mehmed Pasha (died 1665 in

Eyüp Eyüp () or Eyüpsultan is a district of the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The district extends from the Golden Horn all the way to the shore of the Black Sea. Eyüp is also the name of a prominent neighborhood and former village in the district, lo ...

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), also known as Boynueğri Mehmed Pasha, was an Ottoman statesman. He was

grand vizier Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ...

of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

from 26 April 1656 to 15 September 1656.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 42. (Turkish) Mehmed Pasha fought in the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–39 under sultan

Murad IV Murad IV ( ota, مراد رابع, ''Murād-ı Rābiʿ''; tr, IV. Murad, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. Murad IV was born in Cons ...

. He was wounded in the neck during a battle, earning him the epithets ''boynuyaralı'' ("wounded-neck" in

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) and ''boynueğri'' ("crooked-neck").''Silahdar Tarihi'', Volume 1, p. 410 As a Sergeant General in his youth, he was involved in the execution of the satirist poet

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17th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire 1665 deaths 1578 births {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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