Sarı Suleyman Pasha

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Sarı Süleyman Pasha (* in the 16th or 17th century in Taşlıca ; † October 14, 1687 in Istanbul ) was an Ottoman statesman and from 1685 to 1687. After the lost battle of Mohács (1687) he was executed. His nickname Sarı means the blonde .

Life

The Ottoman army after a devastating defeat during the Second Battle of Mohács (1687).

Sarı Süleyman Pascha was born around 1628/29 as the son of Mürüvvet in Taşlıca (now Pljevlja , Montenegro ) in Eyâlet Bosnia . After attending the Enderun School , he was the Kethüda of Grand Vizier Köprülü Fâzıl Ahmed Pascha and later the Sultan's Chief Stable Master ( Mirahur ). In 1684 he was appointed second vizier.

On November 18, 1685, the Sultan appointed him the new Grand Vizier. One of the first official acts was the release of the Hungarian magnate Emmerich Thököly . He also immediately wrote desperate letters to the Khan of the Crimea and the Pashas of Timișoara , Székesfehérvár and Osijek in order to reorganize and strengthen the ailing Ottoman army in Hungary, which was fighting in the siege of Buda (1686) . Although Sarı Suleyman Pasha made several attempts to break the siege of Buda, the city was eventually conquered by Charles V, Duke of Lorraine . Soon after, the Ottomans also lost Székesfehérvár.

Süleyman Pascha then ordered his armed forces to hold the remains of Ottoman territory against their opponents and sent an emissary to Field Marshal Donat Johann Heissler von Heitersheim to negotiate a peace in Dobrodzień . But all attempts to do so failed.

After the defeat in the Battle of Mohács in 1687, the Ottoman army started an uprising against the Grand Vizier. Suleyman Pasha, who feared that the insurgents would kill him, fled from the command position first to Belgrade and then to Istanbul, where he hid for days. In early September 1687 news of his defeat and flight to Istanbul reached Sultan Mehmed IV. He deposed Suleyman Pasha and proclaimed Abaza Siyavuş Pasha II as the new commander of the armed forces and finally as the new grand vizier. Soon after, Suleyman Pasha was arrested and executed. Two months later, as a result of the defeat at Mohács, the sultan himself was dethroned and replaced by Sultan Suleyman II .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ismail Hami Danişmend: Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı , Türkiye Yayınevi, Istanbul 1971
  2. ↑ Simpozijum Seoski dani Sretena Vukosavljevića . Opštinska zajednica obrazovanja, 1978, p. 156
  3. ↑ Ismail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı, Enver Ziya Karal: Osmanli Tarihi . Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1954, p. 424
  4. ↑ Studia Austro-Polonica , Państwowe Wydawn, Naukowe 1983, p. 319
  5. ↑ a b Mehmet Süreyya: Sicill-i Osmanî . Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, Istanbul 1996, p. 1550
  6. ↑ a b c d Süleyman Paşa, Sarı , İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Türk Diyanet Vakfı, accessed on May 5, 2020
predecessor Office successor
Bayburtlu Kara Ibrahim Pasha Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
November 18, 1685 - September 18, 1687 		Abaza Siyavuş Pasha II.
personal data
SURNAME Sarı Suleyman Pasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: before 1660
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1687