page_title: Sinan Pasha (Ottoman admiral)
hierarchical_section_title: Sinan Pasha (Ottoman admiral)
caption_attribution_description: English: Koca Sinan Pasha
context_page_description: Sinanüddin Yusuf Pasha or in short Sinan Pasha born in the late 15th or early 16th century in Sarajevo, in Sanjak of Bosnia to Bosniak Christian parents in the town of Butmir to the family of Opucović. Sinan and his family accepted Sunni Islam, his brother Rustem was a Bosniak Grand Vizier and his sisters name was Nefise, other than that not much of his family is known. He was an Ottoman Grand Admiral, who served the Ottoman Navy for nearly four years between 1550 and the end of 1553, during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. He was of Bosniak descent and did not mention much other than that, nor did he built structures in Bosnia like other famous Bosniaks. The predecessor of Piali Pasha in this rank and the brother of Grand Vizier Rüstem Pasha, who in turn was married to Mihrimah Sultan, a daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent and Hurrem Sultan.
caption: Sinan Pasha
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