[575] Sadr-ı esbak Amasyalı Kara İbrâhim Paşa’nın büyük mahdûmu olup Amasyalı Süleyman Paşa kerîmesi Emine Hânım’dan İstanbul’da doğdu. Pederinin sadâretinde mektûbî ser-halifesi olmuşdu. Azl ve i’dâmında ammizâdesi Yeğen Osmân Paşa’nın yanına gitdi.
1099 senesi recebinde Yeğen Osmân Paşa’nın arz ve ısrarıyla birlikte ba-rütbe-i mîr-i mîrânî Karahisar-ı Şarkî mutasarrıfı oldu. Lâkin Yeğen Paşa’nın isyânında fermânlı olduğundan kaçıb Amasya’ya geldi. Burada Boyacıoğulları ile birleşip bir cemiyyet-i âsiye şeklin aldı. Nihayet tahassun etdikleri Bağlıca köyü etrafında tutulup 1100’de i’dâm edildi.
In Modern English
He was the eldest son of the former grand vizier Kara İbrâhim Pasha of Amasya; he was born in Istanbul to Emine Hanım, daughter of Süleyman Pasha of Amasya. During his father's grand vizierate he had become chief clerk (başhalife) of the secretariat (mektûbî). When his father was dismissed and killed, he went to his cousin Yeğen Osman Pasha.
In Receb 1099 [1688], upon the report and insistence of Yeğen Osman Pasha, he became mutasarrıf of the sanjak of Karahisar-ı Şarkî with the rank of mîrmîrân (beylerbeyi). But since an order (ferman) was issued against him during Yeğen Pasha's rebellion, he fled and came to Amasya. There he joined the Boyacıoğulları and formed a rebel band. Finally, he was captured around the village of Bağlıca, where they had taken refuge, and executed in 1100 [1688-89].
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- sadr-ı esbak: former grand vizier
- mektûbî ser-halifesi: the chief assistant at the head of the office that conducted the grand vizier's correspondence
- azl ve i'dâm: dismissal and killing
- ammizâde: son of a paternal uncle, cousin
- ba-rütbe-i mîr-i mîrân: with the rank of beylerbeyi (pasha)
- mutasarrıf: the official who governed a sanjak
- fermânlı: one against whom an order of execution or arrest had been issued
- cemiyyet-i âsiye: rebel band
- tahassun: taking refuge, withdrawing to a fortified place
His Father: Kara İbrahim Pasha
Kara İbrahim Pasha was a peasant's son, born in 1030 [1620-21] in the village of Handevrek in Kelkit, which belonged to Bayburt; he was raised in the household of Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha and, during that pasha's grand vizierate, became close to Sultan Mehmed IV. When the second siege of Vienna ended in failure, he turned against his former master, and after Kara Mustafa Pasha's execution on 6 Muharrem 1095 [25 December 1683] he became grand vizier. He himself was removed from the grand vizierate on 21 Muharrem 1097 [18 December 1685], then exiled to Rhodes, and killed there in Şaban 1098 [June-July 1687].
The noteworthy detail here concerns his home region. Hüsameddin regards him as "of Amasya" and presents the mother of his son as the daughter of a pasha of Amasya. The encyclopedia entry, however, gives Kelkit as his birthplace and says his endowments are in Izmir, Yenişehir and Kelkit. The nisba "Bayburtluzâde" in the entry's title also points to Bayburt. One might speak of his tie with Amasya arising from the family's settling in Amasya or being established through marriage; but no record explaining this was seen in the sources.
Yeğen Osman Pasha and Bağlıca
Yeğen Osman Pasha was a commander who rose at the head of the sekban units gathered from Anatolia in the late seventeenth century. According to some sources he was the son of Baba Pasha from the village of Çöplü in the Alaca district of Çorum and took part in the second siege of Vienna; in another account his origin is given as Armenian and Christian. Studies note that neither piece of information rests on firm documents and that there are insufficient sources on his origin. In 1687 he was sanjak governor in the sanjak of Karahisar and briefly beylerbeyi of Rumelia; after Süleyman II replaced Mehmed IV, he rebelled. While he was governor of Belgrade, the city fell to the army of the Holy Roman Empire on 8 September 1688. Under pressure from the Crimean Khan Selim Giray, a fatwa of death was issued against him and he was killed in 1689.
Hüsameddin ties Kara İbrahim Pasha's son to Yeğen Osman's circle: Ahmed Pasha first obtained a sanjak with Yeğen's support, then became a wanted man with his rebellion. His return to Amasya and joining with the Boyacıoğulları is the reflection of this rebellion in Amasya. In another record in volumes 6-8 of the book, it is told that a man against whom an order had been issued because of his father's rebellion escaped the pursuit of Peçelizâde Hasan Bey, alaybeyi of Amasya, withdrew to the nahiye of Geldiklan, and was caught at the Bağlıca farm in Receb 1100 [April-May 1689] and killed together with his companions. The same record states that the Boyacızâdes were called "Yeğenlüler", that is, were regarded as Yeğen Osman's men. Bağlıca is today a village belonging to Amasya and had a population of 387 in the 2021 census.
Hüsameddin writes of the cousin relationship, but no other source was found confirming this closeness. Moreover, Hüsameddin gives Ahmed Pasha's death as 1100; since Yeğen Osman's death appears in encyclopedic sources as 1689, this date is also consistent.
Bibliography
Primary sources
Academic studies
Books
- Altuğ Ortakcı, "Yeğen Gazi, Yeğen Osman Paşa", Türk Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü (TEİS), 2014 (updated 2020).
Other sources