Karamani Mehmed Pasha
{{Short description|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1477 to 1481}}
{{About|the 15th century Ottoman grand vizier from Karaman|the 13th century bey of Karaman|Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey}}
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Karamani Mehmet Pasha (died 4 May 1481) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier from 1477 to 1481.
Early years
Karamani was born in Konya and was a descendant of Rumi.{{cite web|last1=Stavridis|first1=Theoharis|title=Karamani Mehmed Paşa|url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/karamani-mehmed-pasa-COM_33026?s.num=14|website=Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE|access-date=25 May 2018}} He traveled to Constantinople (present day Istanbul) to study in the medrese founded by Mahmud Pasha Angelovic. Later on, he worked as a teacher in the medrese. Being a man of letters, in various occasions he acted as a consultant to the sultan. He was appointed as the court calligrapher (nisanci, {{langx|tr|nişancı}})Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sadrazamları, Neden Yayınları, İstanbul, 2009 {{ISBN|978-975-254-278-5}} p 25 and he contributed to the kanunname of Mehmed II, a series of laws regularising the Ottoman Empire. He also helped the sultan in writing letters of high literary value to Aq Qoyunlu sultan Uzun Hasan.[http://www.e-tarih.org/biyografi.php?b=219&isim=Karamanî%20Mehmed%20Paşa Biography of Karamanlı Mehmet {{in lang|tr}}]
As a grand vizier
After conquering Constantinople and the execution of grand vizier Çandarlı Halil Pasha, Mehmed II had preferred to appoint grand viziers of devshirme origin instead of Ethnic Turks to avoid possible crises caused by over-powerful grand viziers.Mevlut Uluğtekin Yılmaz: Osmanlı’nın Arka Bahçesi, Ankara, 1998 {{Page needed|date=June 2011}} After executing his last Turkish grand vizier, his next four grand viziers were of devsirme origin. Karamani Mehmet's appointment as grand vizier in 1476, therefore marks a notable exception, for he was a Turk from the recently conquered Karamanid territory in Anatolia. In his short term in the office, Karamani Mehmet tried to reform the Ottoman administration.
Death of Mehmed II and Karamani Mehmet
In 1481, Mehmed II died. In the Ottoman Empire, it was the duty of the Grand Viziers to delay the announcement of a Sultan's death before the claimant to throne arrived in the capital, in order to avoid chaos. However, in this case, the sultan's sons were far away; Bayezid (later Bayezid II) was in Amasya and Cem Sultan was in Karaman, Karamani Mehmet's home town. Karamani Mehmet sent messengers to both princes,Nicolae Jorga: Geschiste des osmanischen (trans. by Nilüfer Epçeli), vol 2, p. 204 Yeditepe Yayınları, İstanbul, 2009, {{ISBN|975 6480 17 3}} but as Karaman was nearer to the capital, Cem had a better chance to reach it before his elder brother. Nevertheless, the Janissaries who were supporting Bayezid learned about the Sultan's death and they further suspected that Karamani Mehmet was backing Cem. They revolted and killed Karamani Mehmet a few days after the death of the Sultan.Lord Kinross: The Ottoman Centuries (trans.Meral Gaspıralı), Altın Kitaplar, İstanbul, 2008 {{ISBN|978 975 21 0955 1}} p 160
See also
References
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Bibliography
- {{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam |first=Yusuf |last=Küçükdağ |title=Karamânî Mehmed Paşa |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/karamani-mehmed-pasa |year=2001 |volume=24 |pages=449–451}}
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