Cerrah Mehmed Pasha (; died January 1604,

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) was an Ottoman statesman. He was

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of the

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from 1598 to 1599.Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) ''Osmanlı Tarihi III. Cilt, 2. Kısım, XVI. Yüzyıl Ortalarından XVII. Yüzyıl Sonuna kadar)'', Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu (Altıncı Baskı 2011 ), p. 358 Mehmed Pasha was the palace

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prior to becoming grand vizier, hence his epithet ''cerrah'' 'surgeon'. The

neighborhood of Cerrahpaşa and one of the two medical faculties of

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, (the other being ), are named after him.

Family

In 1579 he married Gevherhan Sultan, a daughter of Sultan

Selim II Selim II (; ; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond () or Selim the Drunkard (), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem Sul ...

and

Nurbanu Sultan Nurbanu Sultan (; 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583) and the Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire from ...

. He was her second husband. They had at least a son:According to some sources, Hatice Hanımsultan, Gevherhan's youngest daughter and Salih's elder half-sister, was also actually born by this marriage and was Cerrah Mehmed's daughter and Salih's full elder sister. *Sultanzade Salih Bey. Governor of Klis.

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* 16th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire 1604 deaths Year of birth missing {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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