Husrev Pasha

Koca Mehmed Hüsrev Paşa or Husrev Pasha (1769 - 1855) was a Capitan Pasha, statesman and Vizier (1839 - 1840) Othoman. During the reign of Abdülmecid, it fought the influence of the local war leaders, reformed the army and transformed the way of getting dressed in the Empire.

During the War of Greek independence, with the row of Capitan Pasha, it was responsible for the Massacre of Psara in June 1824. It attacked Samos then, where it was joined by the Egyptian fleet of Ibrahim Pasha. All the summer, of the skirmishes opposed the Othoman and Greek fleets, until the battle of Gerontas and the final victory of the Greeks.

It then was driven out navy and was named Gouverneur of the Vilayet of Trabzon. It then imposed the Othoman central capacity in the area against the feudal buildings. It found then the confidence of the Sultan Mahmud II. It took part in the annihilation of the body of the Janissaires in 1826, then with the creation of Othoman the army known as Armée Mansure , on the Western model.

Koca Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha would have adopted more than one hundred of children (sometimes bought on markets with the slaves) whom it installed, after their having given a solid education, in the wheels of the Othoman adminsitration. It was thus of İbrahim Edhem Pasha, Chiote, bought with Smyrna on a market with the slaves after the Massacre of Tap-holes. The body of the officers of the new Othoman army included/understood between 70 and 80 “children” of Koca Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha.

Koca Mehmed Hüsrev Pasha was also determining in the quasi-abandonment of the Turban and the adoption of the Fez in the Empire. It imported it Algérie and of Tunisia where it had seen it at the time of its voyages through the Mediterranean as Capitan-Pacha.

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Gökçek Papers
Macedonia

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