Rami Mehmed Pasha
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Rami Mehmed Pasha |
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| Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
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In office January 25, 1703 – August 22, 1703 |
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| Monarch | Mustafa II |
| Preceded by | Daltaban Mustafa Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Kavanoz Ahmed Pasha |
| Ottoman Governor of Egypt | |
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In office 1704–1706 |
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| Preceded by | Baltacı Süleyman Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Dellak Ali Pasha |
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| Born | 1645 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1706 (aged 60–61) Rhodes, Ottoman Empire |
| Nationality | Ottoman |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Rami Mehmed Pasha (1645–1706) was an Ottoman statesman and poet who served as Grand Vizier (1703) and governor of Cyprus and of Egypt (1704–06). He was known as a poet of divan literature (the epithet Rami, meaning "Obedient", is his nom de plume in his poems).
He was born in 1645 in Istanbul to Terazici Hasan Aga. After completing his education, he started his career as a bureaucrat. In 1690, he was appointed as a clerk in the office of the reis ül-küttab. In 1696, he was promoted to be the reis ül-küttab (a post roughly equivalent to foreign minister) and three years later he represented the Ottoman Empire in the peace talks of the Treaty of Karlowitz which ended the War of the Holy League. The Ottoman Empire was defeated in the war, but Mehmed Rami tried his best to minimize the losses.
On January 25, 1703, he was promoted to the post of Grand Vizier, the highest post of the Ottoman Empire other than that of the Sultan. However he soon realized that the Sheikh ul-Islam Feyzullah, who wielded great influence on the sultan Mustafa II, was the de facto ruler of the empire. The Sultan gave strict orders to Rami Mehmed to seek Feyzullah's approval in all of his decisions, a regulation which reduced the status of the Grand Vizier to a subordinate of the Sheikh ul-Islam. Even under this unfavorable situation, Rami tried to reform the post-war economy and the navy, but his term was too short to carry these reforms through.
Both Feyzullah’s almost unlimited authority and the Sultan’s insistence on residing in Edirne rather than Istanbul, the capital, caused reactions among the soldiers and the citizens in Istanbul. In the summer of 1703, they revolted against the Sultan. At the end of this revolt known as Edirne event, Rami Mehmed as well as the Sultan were deposed on August 22, 1703.
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