page_title: Kuyucu Murad Pasha
hierarchical_section_title: Kuyucu Murad Pasha
context_page_description: Kuyucu Murad Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Ahmed I between December 9, 1606 and August 5, 1611. He is thought to have been Serb either born as a Muslim or converted later on during Devshirme conscription He died during the Ottoman–Safavid War.
context_section_description: Kuyucu Murad Pasha (Turkish for "Murad Pasha the Well-digger", i.e. "Gravedigger"; Serbo-Croatian: Murat-paša Kujudžić born in 1535, Bosnia, died 1611, Diyarbakır ) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Ahmed I between December 9, 1606 and August 5, 1611. He is thought to have been Serb either born as a Muslim or converted later on during Devshirme conscription He died during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1618).
caption: The blackened entrance to Kuyucu Murad Pasha's mausoleum. Clean-up has been halted due to the criticism of many Anatolian groups of the government-sponsored upkeep of the building due to Murad Pasha's sectarian execution of thousands of Turks in the early 1600s.
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