Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha ( in ) ( 1644 – 1702 ) of the Köprülü family , was the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Mustafa II from September 1697 until September 1702 . < ref name = " shaw " < / ref > Shaw , Stanford J . ( 1976 ) , " History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey Vol . 1 Empire of the Gazis : The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire " , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 - 521 - 29163 - 1 pp . 225 – 227 < / ref > Amcazade Koprulu Huseyin Pasha was close to ordinary Ottoman Moslem subjects being a member of the Mevlevi Order . He was known to be concerned with the needs of the common people as well as those of the military and bureaucratic classes . Earlier years . Amcazade Huseyin was born in 1644 and was the son of Hasan Ağa Kypriljoti , the brother of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha , and for this reason he has the cognonom of " amcazade ( nephew ) " . We have little of his youth and education . His father had agricultural estates at the Turkish village of " Kozluca " in present day Bulgaria and young Huseyin spent his youth there . He must have had a good Ottoman classical scribal or military education , since because when he is first mentioned he is a staff officer . He participated at the campaign for Siege of Vienna at 1683 , as a high staff officer in the Ottoman army since Ottomans were commanded by the Grand Vizier Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha , who was his close relative . After the defeat of Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna and retreat to Belgrade , Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa was executed and Amcazade Huseyin was arrested because of his close relationship to the executed commander . In 1684 he was released from prison , but was sent away from the seat of power as an administrator of provinces with a rank of " beylerbeyi " . First he was appointed as guard - governor of Cardak near Gallipoli at the Dardanelles Straits ; then he was given the rank of " vizier " and given a similar but more prestigious job at " Seddulbahir " . In 1691 for a time he was appointed as the temporary governor ( " kaimakam " ) of Istanbul and returned to his main job on Dardanelles . On 1694 he was appointed the " Kapudan Pasha ( Ottoman admiral - in - chief ) " and was instrumental with the help of Mezzo Morto Huseyin Pasha in retaking of Chios from the Venetians in 1695 . For this success he was appointed the governor of Chios . In 1696 he was again appointed as the temporary governor of Istanbul but soon was sent to the post of governship of Belgrade . On August 1697 the Ottoman army under the command of Sultan Mustafa II was on the campaign against the Austrians and came to Belgrade . In a War Council planning on what to do next , Amcazade Huseyin Pasha proposed that the Ottoman army should go and put under siege the fortress of Varaždin . However , others argued that it should go towards Temesvar ; their proposal was accepted and the Ottoman army was surprised and routed at the Battle of Zenta . Years as Grand Vizier . Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha was appointed the Grand Vizier on 17 September 1697 just after the disastrous Ottoman defeat at Battle of Zenta on 11 September 1697 . He was given a promise by the Sultan that he would be free agent in his government of the Empire with no interference by the Sultan . It was hoped that during the negotiations for peace to take place at Karlowitz , he could use family ability to get best possible terms for the ending of the long war against the Holy League of 1684 , a coalition of European powers including the Habsburg Monarchy , the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth , the Republic of Venice and Peter I of Russia . After long months of negotiations the Treaty of Karlowitz was signed on 26 January 1699 . The Ottomans ceded to the Habsburg Monarchy , all of the Ottoman province of Hungary including Transylvania which was conquered after 1526 ; Podolia was returned to Poland and most of Dalmatia and Morea ( the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece ) passed to Venice . With the heavy loss of professional soldiers at the Battle of Zenta and the large territories ceded away , it became obvious that Ottoman military system , the financial system and bureaucratic systems sustaining the military and the state had to be reformed . This task fell mainly on the shoulders of the Grand Vizier Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha . Amcazade Huseyin started with economic and financial reforms . The excise duties on tobacco and coffee , which had quadrupled during the war to provide finance for military effort , were substantially reduced and so too the duties on essential consumer goods , for example soap and cooking oil . During the war special imposition taxes were created and those who could not pay these extraordinary tax impositions were heavily fined . Amcazade Huseyin abolished these extraordinary tax impositions and issued a tax amnesty on those who were not able to pay and who were required to pay heavy fines . The rates of traditional taxes were adjusted down so that they matched the ability to pay . Debased coins struck during the war were replaced by coins of full value . New cultivators , from nomadic Turcomans , were induced to settle in places like Urfa , Malatya , Antalya and Cyprus where the numbers of agricultural peasants had decreased to very low levels . Efforts were made to develop a new manufacturing base , in place of devastated Ottoman craft industries and replacing imports from Europe . Amcazade Huseyin , then , had the salary rolls of the professional army ( " kapikulu " corps ) reviewed . The " Janissary Corps " numbers which had reached 70 . 000 men before Treaty of Karlowitz , of which than only 10 . 000 were actually combatants , were reduced to 34 , 000 combatants ; while the " Artillery Corps " was reduced from 6 , 000 to 1 , 250 . There was new recruitment to the " Kapikulu Sipahi Corps " . Similarly , the provincial " Timaroid Sipahi " were reformed by eliminating bribery and making sure that they were properly maintained and trained . The Navy was also reorganised under the command of Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha , who was a close ally of Amcazade Huseyin . At last , a new fleet of wind - driven galleons replaced the oar - driven galleys . The naval officers and personnel were also fully reorganised creating a complete hierarchy of officers . The lower rank galleon men were properly and regularly housed in barracks ; paid well and even their retirement was thought of for the first time in Ottoman navy . Finally , the bureaucracy of scribes of the central government and of the palace was reorganised , retiring old inefficient scribes and introducing new ones trained at new scribal schools . The Sultan was very much affected by the defeat at Battle of Zenta , where he was personally present . Giving Amcazade Huseyin a free hand in governing his realm , he retreated to a court life , not in Istanbul but in the old Placae in Edirne . His close advisor was his old teacher , a cleric called Feyzullah Efendi , who he appointed as the Sheikh ul - Islam . Soon Feyzullah Efendi became the effective voice of the Sultan . As soon as the effects of Treaty of Karlowitz over , Feyzullah Efendi collected around him a clique of relatives and allies ; started appointing them to key state posts and became the centre of intrigues against the Grand Vizier Amcazade Huseyin . Feyzullah Efendi had his son Fethullah Efendi given an appointment that would have given him the post of Sheik - ul - Islam when his father left the post . The appointment of a sheikh - ul - Islam by dynastic rules was totally unprecedented but Amcazade Huseyin had little choice in the matter . From then onwards whenever the state under Amcazade Huseyin started affecting adversely his interests , Feyzullah Efendi was able to intervene and stop the application of such a policy . In July 1701 Mezzo Morto Huseyin Pasha , who was an ally of Amcazade Huseyin , died and the delicate power balance between Istanbul and Edirne tipped towards Feyzullah Efendi in Edirne . This frustrated Amcazade Huseyin Pasha so much , that his serious illness is attributed to this helplessness . After that illness in September 1702 Amcazade Huseyin Pasha resigned from the post of Grand - Vizier . He went to live in his estate at Silivri , near Istanbul . Before the end of the year he died at his estate . He was buried at a türbe ( tomb ) at the district of " Sarachanebasi " in Istanbul . An able administrator and an important reformer he demonstrated again the ability of a member of the Koprulu dynasty in holding the Ottoman power intact after a big crisis , but at the end he was driven from office by a powerful cleric . One of the oldest wooden coastal mansions on the Bosphorous near the first suspension bridge , is the partial remains of one belonging to him called the " Koprulu Amcazade Huseyin Yalisi " . It is claimed that Amcazade Huseyin reviewed the final negotiated copy of the Treaty of Karlowitz at this left - over part of the mansion .