Çerkes Mehmed Ali Pasha (; died 28 January 1625) was an Ottoman statesman who served as

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire The grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire ( or ''Sadr-ı Azam'' (''Sadrazam''); Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: or ) was the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sultan in the Ottoman Empire, with the absolute p ...

from 1624 to 1625.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish) Mehmed was of Circassian origins, hence his epithet. He was educated in the

Enderun School The Enderun School () was a palace school and boarding school within Topkapi Palace. It was mostly for princes of the court and the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Students here were primarily recruited via ''devşirme'', a system of the Islam ...

in Istanbul. At one point, he served as the armorer and bodyguard () of the

sultan Sultan (; ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be use ...

. He died of illness on 28 January 1625 in

Tokat Tokat is a city of Turkey in the mid-Black Sea region of Anatolia. It is the seat of Tokat Province and Tokat District.

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17th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire People from the Ottoman Empire of Circassian descent 1625 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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