Topal Recep Pasha

Topal Recep Pasha (, "Redjep Pasha "Lame"; died 18 May 1632) was an Ottoman statesman from the Sanjak of Bosnia,İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, Istanbul, 1971, p. 34. (Turkish) as well as Damat ("bridegroom") to the House of Osman as the husband of Gevherhan Sultan, daughter of Sultan Ahmed I. He was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 10 February 1632 until his execution on 18 May 1632.Sakaoglu, Necdet, (1999) Bu Mülkün Sultanları, Istanbul: Oğlak Yayıncılık pg.240 He was instrumental in the lynching the former grand vizier, Hafiz Ahmed Pasha. When his brother-in-law Sultan Murad IV realized this, he had Recep Pasha executed on 18 May 1632 in Constantinople.Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sadrazamları, Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009, p. 92 He was of Bosnian origin.Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) Osmanlı Tarihi III. Cilt, 2. Kısım XVI. Yüzyıl Ortalarından XVII. Yüzyıl Sonuna kadar), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu (Altıncı Baskı 2011) ) p.384

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