Benderli Ali Pasha was an Ottoman

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. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He ruled from 23 March 1821 to 30 April 1821 as grand vizier of Sultan

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İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı'', Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 72. He came to Constantinople on 21 April 1821 and was actually only nine days in power. He was the last grand vizier clearly executed upon a clear order by a Sultan (

). According to Ottoman biography textbook called ''Sicill-i Osmani'', on 12 April 1821 he was diminished by Sultan Mahmud and was sent to exile in

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, where he died later. Controversially according to Ottoman annals by royal historian Vak'a-nüvis Ahmet Cevdet Efendi (textbook called ''Tarih-i Cevdet''), he was sent in exile to

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and after his departure royal executors were sent to the island. He was interred at

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in the

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district of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ali Pasha, Benderli People from Bender, Moldova 19th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire Burials at Karacaahmet Cemetery Executed people from the Ottoman Empire Moldavian Muslims 19th-century executions by the Ottoman Empire Executed Moldovan people Year of birth missing 1821 deaths