Boynuyaralı Mehmed Pasha (born:1576

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died 1665 in Eyüp,

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), also known as Boynueğri Mehmed Pasha, was an Ottoman statesman. He was

grand vizier Grand vizier (; ; ) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. It was first held by officials in the later Abbasid Caliphate. It was then held in the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Soko ...

of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

from 26 April 1656 to 15 September 1656. Mehmed Pasha fought in the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–39 under sultan

Murad IV Murad IV (, ''Murād-ı Rābiʿ''; , 27 July 1612 – 8 February 1640) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. Murad I ...

. He was wounded in the neck during a battle, earning him the epithets ''boynuyaralı'' ("wounded-neck" in Turkish) and ''boynueğri'' ("crooked-neck").''Silahdar Tarihi'', Volume 1, p. 410 As a Sergeant General in his youth, he was involved in the execution of the satirist poet Nef'i. Although he was famous for his courage in wars in his youth, he was noted as an unsuccessful grand vizier. He was of Turkish origin.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 42. (Turkish)

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17th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire 1665 deaths 1576 births {{Ottoman-bio-stub Turks from the Ottoman Empire

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