Sadr-ı esbak Dâvud Paşa'nın oğludur. Sultân Selîm'e küçüklüğünde intisâb etmiş, i'timâdını kazanmışdı. 918 senesi saferinin onunda Amasya'ya beylerbeyi oldu. Rebî'ulevvelinin üçüncü günü Amasya'ya geldi. Yörgüç Paşazâde Mustafa Bey Amasya alaybeyisi oldu.
Sultân Ahmed, Ankara'ya vusûlünde ibtidâ Konya'ya gidip Anadolu'yu istîlâ ederek i'lân-ı saltanat etmesini kurdu. Konya'ya doğru yürüdü. Fakat kendisini ta'kîbe me'mûr olan Malkoçoğlu Tor Ali Bey'in şiddetle hücûmunu görünce bunun mümkün olmadığını anladı. Amasya'ya döndü.
Tor Alî Bey, yine ta'kîbâtına devâm edib Sultân Ahmed'in peşi sıra Amasya havâlîsine kadar geldi. Sultân Ahmed, Mustafa Paşa'nın Amasya'da olduğunu anlayınca Sivas'a doğru gitdi. Tor Ali Bey de dönüp Rûmeli'ne me'mûr oldu.
Sultân Ahmed, Tor Alî Bey'in avdetini duydukda Niksâr üzerinden [269] gelip Amasya'yı ansızın basdı. Kale ve şehrin muhâfızlarına göz açdırmadan Amasya'yı 918 rebî'ul-âhirinde zabt ederek i'lân-ı saltanat etdi.
In Modern English
He is the son of the former grand vizier Dâvud Pasha. In his youth he had attached himself to Sultan Selim and won his trust. On the tenth of Safar of the year 918 [1512-13] he became beylerbeyi of Amasya. He arrived at Amasya on the third day of Rabi' al-Awwal. Yörgüç Paşazade Mustafa Bey became alaybeyi of Amasya.
When Sultan Ahmed reached Ankara, he first planned to go to Konya, invade Anatolia and proclaim his sultanate. He marched toward Konya. But when he saw the fierce attack of Malkoçoğlu Tor Ali Bey, who had been charged with pursuing him, he understood that this was not possible. He returned to Amasya.
Tor Ali Bey continued his pursuit and followed Sultan Ahmed as far as the neighborhood of Amasya. Sultan Ahmed, understanding that Mustafa Pasha was at Amasya, went toward Sivas. Tor Ali Bey turned back and was assigned to Rumeli.
Sultan Ahmed, hearing of Tor Ali Bey's return, came by way of Niksar and suddenly raided Amasya. Without letting the guards of the fortress and the city so much as open their eyes, he took Amasya in Rabi' al-Akhir of the year 918 [1512-13] and proclaimed his sultanate.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- sadr-ı esbak: former grand vizier
- intisâb: attaching oneself, entering someone's service
- alaybeyi: the commander responsible for the order of military units in a sanjak
- vusûl: arrival
- ta'kîb: following, going in pursuit
- avdet: return
- i'lân-ı saltanat: proclaiming one's sultanate
Who Is Mustafa Pasha?
Hüsameddin presents Mustafa Pasha, beylerbeyi of Amasya, as the son of the former grand vizier Dâvud Pasha. According to the encyclopedia entry on Dâvud Pasha, the waqf records show four sons of the pasha; of these, Mustafa was sanjak bey of Yanya in 1503 and became a son-in-law of Bayezid II. Whether this Mustafa and the Mustafa Pasha who was beylerbeyi of Amasya are the same person is not stated clearly in the sources I read; therefore no identification was made. A study of the Amasya princes, on the other hand, says that when Selim became sultan he appointed Mustafa Pasha as beylerbeyi of Amasya and that he secured calm in the sanjak; on this point it is consistent with Hüsameddin's account.
The Pursuit and the Taking of Amasya
The Malkoçoğlu Tor Ali Bey of the text appears in today's sources as Malkoçoğlu Turali Bey. A source narrating the Battle of Yenişehir writes that while Prince Ahmed was at Afyon, after Turali Bey's attack he withdrew first to Ankara and from there to Malatya, and sent his two sons to Shah İsmail to ask for help. Hüsameddin, on the other hand, says that Ahmed turned from Ankara toward Konya, gave up and returned to Amasya, went from there to Sivas, and came back to Amasya by the Niksar road when Tor Ali Bey returned to Rumeli. The two accounts differ in place names; the passage through Malatya does not appear in Hüsameddin. On Ahmed's retaking of Amasya, the encyclopedia entry on Koca Mustafa Pasha reports that some Ottoman sources write that the pasha secretly sent word to the prince and thereby caused him to take Amasya, while other sources relate that the pasha was put to death without guilt on such claims.
No other source was found within the scope of this work on the inscription of the fortress gate mentioned in Hüsameddin's notes, that is, the inscription showing that the fortress was repaired in 918.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 3, pp. 492–493. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies
- Selim Özcan, "Amasya'da Sancak Beyliği Yapan Şehzadeler Döneminde Amasya Şehri", DergiPark.
Books
- Şerafettin Turan, "Dâvud Paşa, Koca", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 1994.
- Feridun Emecen, "Koca Mustafa Paşa", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 26, Ankara 2002, pp. 131–133.
Other sources
- "Yenişehir Muharebesi (1513)", Wikipedia.