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Melek Ahmed Pasha Niek Yoan

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Melek Ahmed Pasha (ca. 1604-1662) was an Ottoman official and Grand Vizier during the stagnation of the empire. He was of Abkhaz (or Abazin) origin. According to one source his father was a sea captain named Pervane. During the reign of Murad IV, he was appointed as the governor of Diyarbak r. During Ibrahim I's reign he was appointed to the governorships of Erzurum, Mosul, Aleppo and Damascus. In 1644 he married to Kaya Sultan, Murad's daughter and gained the title damat (groom). But all of the provinces (even Erzurum a part of Turkey) he was assigned, were quite far from Istanbul, the capital, and during most of his assignments his wife stayed in Istanbul. During the reign of Mehmed IV, he finally returned to Istanbul as a vizier. But in 1650, to the dismay of his wife he was appointed as the governor of Baghdad, another post far from Istanbul. Kaya Sultan tried to persuade the queen regent to revoke the decision. But she couldn't succeed, a sign of the chaos in Ottoman palace. Nevertheless, before Melek Ahmed left Istanbul, the Grand Vizier Kara Dev Murad Pasha resigned, complaining of the intrigues of the palace people.