Ermeni Süleyman Pasha () also Koca was an Ottoman

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ethnicity. He was

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 19 August 1655 until 28 February 1656. He attended Enderun school. Served as governor of

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then of

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. Married to the daughter of Sultan

Ahmed I Ahmed I ( '; ; 18 April 1590 – 22 November 1617) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, Ottoman rulers would no ...

, Ayşe Sultan. After being demoted from the position of Grand Vizier, he was appointed as the governor of Bosnia then as

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of Istanbul, Özü, then Istanbul, and Erzurum again. After this last position, he retired and died in

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.Meydan Larousse Büyük Lugât ve Ansiklopedi, 1965

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17th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire Armenians from the Ottoman Empire 1607 births 1687 deaths {{Ottoman-bio-stub