Cinci Hoca (literally "

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") is the

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of Karabaşzade Hüseyin Efendi, a 17th-century Ottoman

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whose influence on the sultan caused many problems in the empire.

Life

He was born in

Safranbolu Safranbolu is a town in Karabük Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is the seat of Safranbolu District.

(in modern province of

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). According to

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,Joseph von Hammer:''Osmanlı Tarihi'' cilt II (condensation: Abdülkadir Karahan), Milliyet yayınları, İstanbul. pp. 231-241 he was a descendant of Sadrettin Konevi, a 13th-century Sufi. But unlike his famous ancestor, he made a name as a witch doctor and

valide sultan Valide Sultan (, lit. "Sultana mother") was the title held by the mother of a ruling sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans first formally used the title in the 16th century as an epithet of Hafsa Sultan (died 1534), mother of Sultan Suleima ...

(mother sultana) Kösem invited him to the palace to cure the unbalanced sultan Ibrahim. In 1643, Sultan Ibrahim appointed Cinci as the kadi of

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and in 1644 as the

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() an appointment which caused a great reaction among the

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Influence

Cinci used his increasing power to increase his wealth by accepting bribes. He was instrumental in executing the able

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Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha in 1644. Seeing the end of his predecessor, the new grand vizier Semiz Mehmed Pasha became a very ineffective statesman.Ayhan Buz: ''Osmanlı Sadrazamları'', Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009, , p.100

Death

When Ibrahim was dethroned in 1648 and replaced by

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, the new grand vizier

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faced the problem of bonus salaries (), the traditional salary paid to soldiers upon the enthronement of the new sultan. He confiscated Cinci's earnings and expelled Cinci to

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(now in

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). But during his travel, Cinci fell ill in Mihalcık (now Karacabey in

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, Turkey). While staying in Mihalcık, he criticised the grand vizier and consequently he was executed.

References

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