Kara Mustafa Pasha (governor of Egypt)
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Kara · Damat Mustafa Pasha |
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| Ottoman Governor of Egypt | |
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In office 16 February 1624 – 16 May 1626 |
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| Monarch | Murad IV |
| Preceded by | Çeşteci Ali Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Bayram Pasha |
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In office 20 July 1623 – 9 October 1623 |
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| Monarch | Mustafa I |
| Preceded by | Silahdar Ibrahim Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Çeşteci Ali Pasha |
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| Died | 1628 |
| Nationality | Ottoman |
| Spouse(s) | Fatma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I) |
Kara Mustafa Pasha (died 1628) was an Ottoman statesman who served twice as the Ottoman governor of Egypt, firstly from 20 July to 9 October 1623 and secondly from 12 February 1624 to 16 May 1626. He also served earlier as the agha (chief) of the Janissary corps in 1623.
Mustafa Pasha was educated in the Enderun palace school. He married Fatma Sultan, a daughter of Sultan Ahmed I, in 1628 but was executed that same year by the reigning Sultan (and his new brother-in-law) Murad IV.
After taking office as governor of Egypt for the first time, he accused his predecessor Silahdar Ibrahim Pasha of failing to pay the customary contribution of every governor of Egypt to the treasury. He sent his kaymakam (lieutenant) Salih Bey after Ibrahim Pasha, who told Salih Bey that whatever money he owed, he would give directly to the sultan in Istanbul, where he was headed anyway. However, the deposition of the Sultan Mustafa I and the succession of Murad IV to the throne, as well as the political chaos around the event that occurred before Ibrahim Pasha arrived back in Constantinople, allowed him to keep the money.
When the sultan replaced Mustafa Pasha with Çeşteci Ali Pasha after only five months in office, as the custom of the sultans was to change the governors of Egypt in rapid succession, the local Ottoman troops marched to the new kaymakam's house and demanded the bonus salaries they usually received when the governor was replaced. The new kaymakam delayed them until the next day and at the same time asked them to bring Mustafa Pasha to him, as the kaymakam's initial task was to analyze the affairs of Mustafa Pasha; one of the paintings belonging to the seraglio was lost, and it was suspected that Mustafa Pasha had taken it for himself. However, the army refused this request, telling him,
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