Arabacı Ali Pasha (also known as Bahadırzade Ali Pasha; 1620–1693) was a short-term AlbanianOttomangrand vizier from 1691 to 1692. His epithet arabacı means "charioteer" in Turkish, an allusion to his practice of sending his political enemies to death or exile in a certain tumbrel.[1]
Ali Pasha was expected to command the army like his predecessor and mentor Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha had done. However, Ali Pasha preferred to stay in the capital, contributing to the Ottoman defeats. His inattentiveness to military affairs and harsh methods (including death sentences) towards his potential opponents caused him to lose the support of the sultan. On 21 March 1692, he was deposed.
Final days and death
Ali Pasha was first exiled to Gelibolu (a port on the Dardanelles strait, in modern Turkey) and then to the island of Rhodes (in modern Greece). However, when a rumor reached the sultan in Istanbul that he had plans return (or revolt), he was executed in Rhodes in 1693.
^Hakan Kâzım Taşkıran, Aḥmed Ḥamdī (2008), Osmanlı'nın son dönemi ve Arnavutlar [End of the Ottoman period and the Albanians], Tepekule Kitaplığı Yayınları, p. 36
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