Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 74 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
[215] Amasya serdârı meşhûr Göyünlüoğlu Mehmed Ağa bin Ali bin İbrâhim bin Bâlî oğludur. Yeniçeri alemdârlığından iken 1241 senesinde yeniçeriliğin ilgâsında ihtifâ ederek kurtuldu. 1245’de vürûd eden afv fermânı üzerine meydâna çıkıp Nizib muhârebesinde yüzbaşılıkla hizmet etdi.
1256’da binbaşı olduysa da ârıza-i vücûdiyyesine binâen 1257’de mütekâ’id olup 1259’da meclis-i idâre erkânından görüldü. Ba’dehû vefât etdi. Kübceğiz Mahallesi eşrâfından hânedân bir kimse idi.
He is the son of the famous Göyünlüoğlu Mehmed Ağa bin Ali bin İbrâhim bin Bâlî, serdar of Amasya. When the Janissary corps was abolished in 1241 [1826] he was a Janissary alemdar (standard-bearer), and he saved his life by hiding. On the arrival of the pardon decree in 1245 [1829-30] he came out and served as captain at the battle of Nizip.
In 1256 [1840-41] he became a major, but because of an ailment in his body he retired in 1257 [1841-42]; in 1259 [1843-44] he was seen among the members of the administrative council. He died some time later. He was one of the leading men of the Kübceğiz quarter and a person of a long-established family.
The turning point in Mehmed Ağa's life is the event called the "Vak'a-i Hayriyye" in Ottoman sources. Mahmud II saw the Janissary corps as the greatest obstacle to giving the state order a centralized structure and to creating a new army. The corps was abolished on 17 June 1826, after the bloody suppression of the last revolt that broke out in Istanbul. The barracks were shelled and burned, and many Janissaries who were caught were tried and executed. Nevertheless, researchers examining the events also record that at the back of the besieged barracks an escape route was left open for those who wished to flee, and that some gates were deliberately kept open. That the number of Janissaries and of those executed is still not known exactly today suggests that those who escaped by hiding were not few.
The life Hüsameddin describes is the provincial story of one of these survivors. Mehmed Ağa, the young standard-bearer of the corps, first hid, and three or four years later was able to reappear through a pardon decree. What is noteworthy is that a former Janissary soon after took service as an officer in the new army set up in place of the corps. Thus the same person was within both the abolished corps and the order that replaced it.
The battle of Nizip, in which Mehmed Ağa took part as captain, was fought between the Egyptian army under the command of İbrâhim Pasha, son of the governor of Egypt Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha, and the Ottoman army under Hâfız Pasha, and ended on 24 June 1839 in a heavy defeat of the Ottoman army. The Prussian officer Helmuth von Moltke, who was with the Ottoman army, proposed attacking the Egyptian vanguard but could not persuade Hâfız Pasha. It is noted that the impressions this battle left occupy an important place in Moltke's later military thought. Hüsameddin says that after this battle Mehmed Ağa rose to major in 1256 [1840-41]; but because of his illness he retired a year later.
Hüsameddin counts Mehmed Ağa among the leading men of the Kübceğiz quarter. In another volume of the same work, while relating the love of two young people, he writes that they were buried side by side at an outing place "above the Kübceğiz quarter, called Kaşukpınarı". Accordingly, above the quarter there was a spring-head that the people used as a promenade.
The name "Kübceğiz" does not appear in the quarter list of the Amasya population register of 1256 [1840], published by Selim Özcan, and the temettuat registers of 1260-1261 [1844-45]. The same list contains a large "Köyceğiz" quarter, with 89 Muslim households and one non-Muslim household in 1840 and 101 Muslim and two non-Muslim households in 1844-45. That the two names are written very similarly in Ottoman script suggests that they may be the same quarter; but this is a guess and could not be verified with the sources. No record of the Göyünlüoğlu family other than Hüsameddin was found.
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