Köse Bahir Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman

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 ...

. His epithet Köse means "beardless". He was also known as Çorlulu Bahir Mustafa Pasha referring to his home town Çorlu. Before being grand vizier he was an ''imrahor'' ("governor of the royal stables").

First term

He was appointed as the grand vizier by the sultan Mahmut I on 1 July 1752. But the Sultan died on 14 December 1754. The new sultan Osman III dismissed Köse Bahir Mustafa Pasha from the post on 17 February 1755. He was exiled to Midilli ( Lesbos, now a Greek island). Later he was moved to Morea (now in

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).Ayhan Buz:''Osmanlı Sadrazamları'', , p.239–242

Second term

His second term as the grand vizier was quite short. He was appointed on 30 April 1756 and was dismissed on 3 December 1756. He was exiled to

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(now a Greek island) But the new grand vizier

Koca Ragıp Pasha Koca Mehmet Ragıp Pasha (1698–1763) was an Ottoman statesman who served as a civil servant before 1744 as the provincial governor of Egypt from 1744 to 1748 and Grand Vizier from 1757 to 1763. He was also known as a poet. His epithet ''Koc ...

was a friend of Köse Bahir Pasha and he helped him to be appointed to various posts in Midilli and Eğriboz (

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, now a Greek island). On 11 June 1758 he was appointed as the governor of

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, a seat he kept till 1762. Although he was appointed to the governorship of

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(now in

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) he refused to go the Aleppo.

Third term

His last term as the grand vizier began on 1 November 1763 during the reign of

Mustafa III Mustafa III (; ''Muṣṭafā-yi sālis''; 28 January 1717 – 21 January 1774) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774. He was a son of Sultan Ahmed III (1703–30), and his consort Mihrişah Kadın. He was succeeded by his ...

. However he was accused of corruption. He was dismissed on 30 March 1765. The next month he was executed in Midilli.

References

{{Authority control 1765 deaths Pashas 18th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire 18th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt 18th-century births People from Çorlu