Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha (1429–1499), called the Younger, was an Ottoman

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who served as

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from 1498 to 1499.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, pp. 537–538. (Turkish) He was the scion of the

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, which provided a series of grand viziers during the first centuries of the Ottoman Empire. His father,

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, had also served as Grand Vizier from 1443 until his execution in 1453. Ibrahim was appointed ''

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'' (judge) of

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and survived his father's disgrace, and was named '' qadi 'asker'' (judge of the army), a very prestigious post, in 1465, before assuming the duties of tutor (''lala'') to the future Sultan

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. He became second visier when Bayezid II ascended to the throne in 1481. When Hersekzade Ahmet Pasha was dismissed from his position, he was appointed as

in 1498. Next year he joined the Venetian campaign with Sultan Bayezid. He died in the military camp near

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. He had two sons named Hüseyin and İsa who served to

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and

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in different positions. He had charitable works such as mosques, baths and madrasahs built in cities such as

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and

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. He was buried at Iznik.

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