Abaza Siyavuş Pasha I (died 25 April 1656) 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 ...

(the index I is used to differentiate him from the second and better known Abaza Siyavuş Pasha, who also served as grand vizier, from 1687 to 1688). He was married with Safiye Hanımsultan, daughter of the princess Gevherhan Sultan and granddaughter of Sultan

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 ...

and his Haseki

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. He was of

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origin and a manservant of Abaza Mehmed, who was a rebel leader of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century. Upon the execution of his master, he entered the service of the palace in

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. In 1638, he was promoted to be a

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, and in 1640, he was assigned as the

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(Admiral of the Navy). In 1642, he was tasked with recapturing the fort of

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) from the

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s, but failed. He was then assigned to various cities as governor, including

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(both in modern

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) and

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). On 5 March 1651, he was promoted to be the grand vizier following an uprising of tradesmen in Istanbul. On 27 September, a little more than a month after his appointment, he was dismissed from his post and was about to be executed when the

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Kösem intervened to save his life. He was appointed as the governor of

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. Although Abaza Siyavuş Pasha was again promoted to the post of grand vizier on 5 March 1656, he died soon afterwards on 25 April.Ayhan Buz: ''Osmanlı Sadrazamları'', Neden Kitap, İstanbul,2009, , p109

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