Kaplan Pasha
Life
Kaplan Pasha was a probable descendant of a janissary based in Latakia, Matarci Ali, who died in 1666 and whose descendants remained in Latakia.{{sfn|Winter|2010|p=107}} When Kaplan's brother, Arslan Pasha, was appointed the governor of Tripoli Eyalet, he appointed Kaplan the governor of the Latakia Sanjak.{{sfn|Winter|2016|p=137}} He is mentioned as the governor of Tripoli in mid-September 1697 in a letter by the Sufi traveler Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi.{{sfn|Akkach|2010|p=72}} In 1698,{{sfn|Winter|2010|pp=125, 127}} Kaplan was appointed by the imperial Ottoman government the governor of Sidon Eyalet, a post he held until 1703.{{sfn|Joudah|2013|p=166}}
In 1698 or 1699 Kaplan Pasha was appointed the amir al-hajj (commander of the Hajj pilgrim caravan), replacing the governor of Damascus, Ahmed Pasha Salih Pashazade, who was executed by Sultan Mustafa II.{{sfn|Barbir|1980|p=48}}
Kaplan Pasha's son, Mehmed Bey, governed Latakia in the early 18th century. He was accused of a host of injustices, including "oppressing the poor", "confiscating tobacco stores" in a government document, but could not be dislodged from his saray (government house) in the city.{{sfn|Winter|2016|p=137}}
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Category:17th-century civil servants from the Ottoman Empire
Category:18th-century people from the Ottoman Empire