Kurd Mehmed Pasha or Kurt Mehmet Pasha (''Mehmed Pasha the Wolf''; died 1605 or 1606) was an
Ottoman statesman who served as the Ottoman
governor of Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
from 1594 or 1595 (specifically, 1003
AH) to April 1596, and the Ottoman
governor of Aleppo
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from 1596 or 1597 (specifically, 1005
AH) sporadically until his death.
[Süreyya, Bey Mehmet, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit Ali. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı Ile Türkiye Ekonomik Ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın Ortak Yayınıdır, 1890. Print.]
He graduated from the palace
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 recru ...
in
Istanbul
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and became
kapıcıbaşı
The Ottoman title of ''kapıcıbaşı'' designated the chief of the palace gatekeepers, or "chief warder". In the early phase of Ottoman statehood there was one single title-holder. It multiplied over time and there were in the 18th century some ...
("chief gatekeeper," a sort of
master of ceremonies) in 1582.
He died in 1605 or 1606 and was buried in the
Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque
The Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque ( tr, Gazi Atik Ali Paşa Camii) is a 15th-century Ottoman mosque located in the Çemberlitaş neighbourhood of the Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey. Its construction was started under the orders of the future G ...
's cemetery in Istanbul.
See also
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List of Ottoman governors of Egypt
The Ottoman Empire's governors of Egypt from 1517 to 1805 were at various times known by different but synonymous titles, among them ''beylerbey'', viceroy, governor, governor-general, or, more generally, '' wāli''. Furthermore, the Ottoman sul ...
References
Pashas
16th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt
17th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman governors of Egypt
1600s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Ottoman governors of Aleppo
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