Semiz Ali Pasha

{{Short description|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1561 to 1565}}

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| office1 = 34th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

| term_start1 = 10 July 1561

| term_end1 = 28 June 1565

| monarch1 = Suleiman I

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| successor1 = Sokollu Mehmed Pasha

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| birth_place = Prača, Ottoman Empire

| death_date = 28 June 1565

| death_place = Constantinople, Ottoman Empire

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Semiz Ali Pasha ({{langx|ota|سيمز علي پاشا}}, {{langx|sh|Semiz Ali-Paša }}) was an Ottoman Serb statesman from the Sanjak of Bosnia who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1561 to 1565. He was the beylerbey (governor) of Egypt Eyalet from 1549 to 1553.{{citation|author=Mehmet Süreyya|editor1=Nuri Akbayar|editor2=Seyit A. Kahraman|title=Sicill-i Osmanî|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=btElAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı|location=Beşiktaş, Istanbul|isbn=9789753330411 |language=tr|orig-year=1890}}{{cite book|author=Yılmaz Öztuna|title=Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi: Osmanlı Devleti'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBGQMgAACAAJ|volume=10|year=1994|publisher=Ötüken Neşriyat A.S.|language=tr|isbn=975-437-141-5|pages=412–416}}{{cite book|author=Giancarlo Casale|title=The Ottoman Age of Exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xf3h3Z1YQtIC|date=26 January 2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-979879-7|pages=87, 102}} Semiz Ali Pasha was born in Prača in Bosnia (thus his secondary epithet), and replaced Rüstem Pasha as a Grand Vizier.{{cite book | last=Murvar | first=Vatro | page=34 | title=Nation and Religion in Central Europe and the Western Balkans: The Muslims in Bosna, Hercegovina, and Sandžak : a Sociological Analysis | publisher=FSSSN Colloquia and Symposia, University of Wisconsin | year=1989 }} After palace schooling, he discharged high-level functions along the Ottoman Empire. His epithet "Semiz" means "fat" in Turkish.

In 1561 he negotiated with the ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire, Ogier de Busbecq, on the terms of a peace treaty which was ratified in Vienna in the following year.Ogier de Busbecq (2005), Turkish Letters, Eland, London, pp. 124 - 160