Koca Mustafa Pasha (; died 1512) was an Ottoman statesman. He was

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of the Ottoman Empire from 1511 to 1512.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 13. (Turkish) He was

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(''Rum'') and probably not a

devşirme Devshirme (, usually translated as "child levy" or "blood tax", , .) was the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman practice of Conscription, forcibly recruiting soldiers and bureaucrats from among the children of their Balkan Christian subjects and raising th ...

Life

He started his career as ''

kapıcıbaşı The Ottoman title of ''kapıcıbaşı'' designated the chief of the palace gatekeepers, or "chief warder". In the early phase of Ottoman statehood there was one single title-holder. It multiplied over time and there were in the 18th century some ...

'', that is "chief doorkeeper" of the Topkapi Palace: in this office he acted also as Master of Ceremonies at receptions of foreign ambassadors. He married a daughter of Sultan

Bayezid II Bayezid II (; ; 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, Bayezid consolidated the Ottoman Empire, thwarted a pro-Safavid dynasty, Safavid rebellion and finally abdicated his throne ...

, Kamerşah Sultan, in 1491 and by her he had a daughter, Hundi Hanımsultan, and a son, Sultanzade Osman Bey. Appointed Grand Vizier near the end of the reign of Bayezid II, he was executed in 1512.Eyice (1955), p. 92. In Istanbul he let convert into mosques two ancient Byzantine churches, which were both named after him: respectively Koca Mustafa Pasha and Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque.Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 173.Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 83.

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* * 16th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire Grand viziers of Selim I Year of birth unknown Executed people from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century executions by the Ottoman Empire People from the Ottoman Empire of Greek descent Devshirme 1510s in the Ottoman Empire 1512 deaths 15th-century slaves in the Ottoman Empire 16th-century slaves in the Ottoman Empire {{Ottoman-bio-stub