Deli Husrev Pasha

Deli Husrev Pasha
Personal details
Born	c. 1495 Sanjak of Bosnia, Ottoman Empire
Died	1544 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Ottoman
Relations	Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha (brother) Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (relative)

Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha (brother)

Deli Hüsrev Paşa (Bosnian: Deli Husrev Paša, Turkish: Deli Hüsrev Paşa, Divane Hüsrev Pasha ()) (c. 1495 - 1544) was an Ottoman statesman from the Sanjak of Bosnia. His epithet "deli" means "crazy" in Turkish, which was ascribed to him because of his quick temper.

He was born in 1495 as one of the early members of the Sokollu family (which would go on to spawn some of the greatest statesmen of the Empire). His exact birthplace is unknown. Some historians place it near the Glasinac Plateau near Sarajevo, while others put it more eastward, to the Podrinje region of Bosnia. His younger brother was Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, and Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was his distant cousin.

He was appointed sanjak-bey of Konya in 1516. He participated in the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) and personally fought in the siege of the city of Harput. He also attended the expedition to Egypt shortly after.

In 1520, he took part in the suppression of the Qizilbash uprising. In 1521, he was appointed beylerbey of the Diyarbekir Eyalet, following the death of its former governor, Sakalli Mehmed Pasha, only to suppress a local rebellion in his eyalet in 1526. During his governorship of the province, he was accused of bribery and even money falsification by an unknown statesman, but the charges were never investigated.

In 1531, a Safavid Empire statesman named Ulama Pasha defected to the Ottomans, however, Husrev was suspicious of his true intentions and had a conflict with him. As a result, he was deposed from his position.

In 1532, he personally came to Istanbul and visited Sultan Suleyman bearing gifts with him. The Sultan brought Husrev with him during the military campaign on Austria the same year. Immediately after his return, he was named beylerbey of Allepo.

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