Rum Mehmed Pasha ( ota, روم محمد پاشا; tr, Rum Mehmed Paşa; 1466–d. 1470) was an Ottoman statesman, known for being the

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 Ottoman Empire from 1466 to 1469 and the main rival of

Mahmud Pasha Angelović Mahmud Pasha Angelović ( sr, Махмуд-паша Анђеловић/Mahmud-paša Anđelović; tr, Veli Mahmud Paşa; 1420–1474) was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1456 to 1466 and again from 1472 to 1474, who also wrote Persia ...

. As his name suggests, he was of

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

descent. Upon the urging of

Karamanlı Mehmet Pasha Karamanlı or Karamani Mehmet Pasha (died May 4, 1481) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier from 1477 to 1481. Early years Karamani was born in Konya and was a descendant of Rumi. He traveled to Constantinople (p ...

, Sultan

Mehmed II Mehmed II ( ota, محمد ثانى, translit=Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; tr, II. Mehmed, ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( ota, ابو الفتح, Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit=the Father of Conquest, links=no; tr, Fâtih Su ...

the Conqueror dismissed Rum Mehmed Pasha from office in 1469 and had him executed by drowning in 1470.

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15th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire Devshirme Grand Viziers of Mehmed the Conqueror Executed people from the Ottoman Empire People from the Ottoman Empire of Greek descent 15th-century executions by the Ottoman Empire 1470 deaths Year of birth missing Greek Muslims {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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