Mehmet Köprülü
Top dog of the Ottoman Empire of 1656 with 1661.
Mehmet Köprülü (1575 - 1661), of Albanian origin, accepts the station of top dog provided that the sultan does not oppose his decrees. It restores the order in the Ottoman Empire: it exiles the ulémas, puts at death 4000 insubordinate soldiers, expels Venetian Dardanelles. It occupies Lemnos and Tenedos (1657) and removes the Transylvania with Georges II Rákóczy (1658). He works with the reorganization of finances. He would have made put at dead for various misappropriations and faults some 36 000 civils servant and employees of the sultan.
With his death, his/her son Ahmed Köprülü succeeds to him.
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