Nasuh Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of

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origin. 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 5 August 1611 until 17 October 1614.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish) He was from Gümülcine (modern

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) and was a

damat Damat ( tr, damat, from fa, {{nq, داماد (dâmâd) "bridegroom") was an official Ottoman title describing men that entered the imperial House of Osman by means of marriage, literally becoming the bridegroom to the Ottoman sultan and the d ...

to the Ottoman dynasty, as he married an Ottoman princess. He was executed for corruption by

Ahmed I Ahmed I ( ota, احمد اول '; tr, I. Ahmed; 18 April 1590 – 22 November 1617) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal f ...

in 1614.

Biography

Nasuh Paha born in

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, he was an Ottoman politician of Albanian origin. He went young to

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and obtained minor assignments from the menagerie . Thanks to the support of his friend Mehmed Agha he quickly got up and was soon appointed voivod of the Qaḍāʾ of

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, in

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, and then governor of Fülek in

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. He married the daughter of Kurdish prince Mir Sheref becoming rich and powerful, which made him proud and cruel. In 1602 he was appointed governor of

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, in 1603 of

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and in 1606 of Diyarbekir . In 1606 he was appointed third vizier and

serasker ''Serasker'', or ''seraskier'' ( ota, سرعسكر; ), is a title formerly used in the Ottoman Empire for a vizier who commanded an army. Following the suppression of the Janissaries in 1826, Sultan Mahmud II transferred the functions of the ...

of the expedition to Persia, but before leaving he was sent to suppress the revolt in Anatolia ; for a betrayal by the Kurds he lost a battle and until 1608 he was unable to rejoin the army of the Grand Vizier

Kuyucu Murad Pasha Kuyucu Murad Pasha (Ottoman Turkish for "Murad Pasha the Well-digger", i.e. "Gravedigger"; sh, Murat-paša Kujudžić; 1535 – 1611) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Ahmed I bet ...

who received him coldly. In 1610 he asked Sultan

to be appointed grand vizier in exchange for 40,000 ducats and the expenses of the army, but the sultan communicated this to the grand vizier who requested such sums as a fine. But the Grand Vizier died shortly after (5 August 1611) at the age of 76 and Nasuh was appointed to the post. He married Ahmed I's daughter, Ayşe Sultan (1612). He has mercilessly repressed his real or imaginary adversaries. He was brave, eloquent and dynamic but at the same time irritable, violent and unable to speak in a low voice, always looking for the humiliation of others. He amassed enormous wealth and considered himself chosen to rule. The sultan decided to remove him and had him strangled by Bostanji-bashi (October 17, 1614). His properties were confiscated.

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