Cerrah Mehmed Pasha ( ota, جراح محمد پاشا; died January 1604,

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) 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

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from 1598 to 1599.Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) ''Osmanlı Tarihi III. Cilt, 2. Kısım , XVI. Yüzyıl Ortalarından XVII. Yüzyıl Sonuna kadar)'', Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu (Altıncı Baskı 2011 ), p. 358 Mehmed Pasha was the palace

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prior to becoming grand vizier, hence his epithet ''cerrah'' 'surgeon'. The

neighborhood of Cerrahpaşa and one of the two medical faculties of

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, (the other being ), are named after him.

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In 1579 he married Gevherhan Sultan, a daughter of Sultan

Selim II Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى ''Selīm-i sānī'', tr, II. Selim; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond ( tr, Sarı Selim) or Selim the Drunk ( tr, Sarhoş Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ...

and

Nurbanu Sultan Nurbanu Sultan ( ota, نور بانو سلطان; "''Queen of light''", 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the principal consort of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), his legal wife, as well Valide Sultan (Su ...

. He was her second husband. They had at least a son:According to some sources, Hatice Hanımsultan, Gevherhan's youngest daughter and Salih's elder half-sister, was also actually born of this marriage. *Sultanzade Salih Bey. Governor of Klis.

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* 16th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire 1604 deaths Year of birth missing {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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