Sarı Süleyman Paşa also known as was an Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 statesman

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. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Grand Vizier

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 from 18 November 1685 until 18 September 1687. "San" means "blond (haired)" in Turkish. Sarı Süleyman Paşa was born in what is today Bosnia and Herzegovina

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. He was executed after the defeat of the Ottoman forces in the Battle of Mohács (1687)

Battle of Mohács (1687)

The Second Battle of Mohács, also known as the Battle of 'Berg Harsány', was fought between the forces of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, commanded by the Grand-Vizier Sari Süleyman Paşa, and the forces of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, commanded by Charles of Lorraine...

. After the defeat, Ottoman army started a rebellion versus the grand vizier. Sarı Süleyman Pasha was afraid that the rebellion would result in his death, so he escaped from the commanding position, first to Belgrade

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 and then to Istanbul

Istanbul

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. At the beginning of September, 1687, news about his defeat and escape came to Istanbul. After Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV Modern Turkish Mehmet was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687...

 heard of that, he proclaimed Abaza Siyavuş Pasha

Abaza Siyavuş Pasha

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 as the new commander of the armed forces, and, eventually, as the new Grand Vizier. Soon after that, Sarı Süleyman Pasha was executed. Two months later, the sultan himself was also removed from power as the result of the defeat in the Battle of Mohács, and was replaced by Suleiman II

Suleiman II

Suleiman II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691...

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