Nasuh Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of

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origin. He was

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of the

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from 5 August 1611 until 17 October 1614.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish) He was from Gümülcine (modern

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) and was a

damat Damat (, from {{langx, fa, {{nq, داماد (dâmâd) "bridegroom") was an official Ottoman title describing men that entered the imperial House of Osman by means of marriage, literally becoming the bridegroom to the Ottoman sultan and the dyn ...

to the

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, as he married an Ottoman princess. He was executed for corruption by

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 ...

in 1614.

Biography

Nasuh Paha born in

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, he was an Ottoman politician of Albanian origin. He went young to

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and obtained minor assignments from the menagerie. Thanks to the support of his friend Mehmed Agha he quickly got up and was soon appointed voivod of the Qaḍāʾ of

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, and then governor of Fülek in

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. He married the daughter of

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prince Mir Sheref becoming rich and powerful, which made him proud and cruel. In 1602 he was appointed governor of

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, in 1603 of

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and in 1606 of Diyarbekir. In 1606, he was appointed third vizier and serasker of the expedition to Persia, but before leaving he was sent to suppress the revolt in Anatolia; for a betrayal by the Kurds he lost a battle and until 1608 he was unable to rejoin the army of the Grand Vizier Kuyucu Murad Pasha who received him coldly. In 1610 he asked Sultan

to be appointed grand vizier in exchange for 40,000 ducats and the expenses of the army, but the sultan communicated this to the grand vizier who requested such sums as a fine. But the Grand Vizier died shortly after (5 August 1611) at the age of 76 and Nasuh was appointed to the post. He married Ahmed I's daughter, Ayşe Sultan (1612). He mercilessly repressed his real or imaginary adversaries. He was brave, eloquent and dynamic but at the same time irritable, violent and unable to speak in a low voice, always looking to humiliate others. He amassed enormous wealth and considered himself chosen to rule. Traveler Pietro Della Valle described him in his accounts of his time in Istanbul: The sultan decided to remove him from his post and had him strangled by the chief of his bodyguards, the Bostanji-bashi, on October 17, 1614. Nasuh Pasha's properties were confiscated.

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Biography

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