monarch predecessor successor death_date death_place religion imagesize nationality office term_start article_title term_end name
mehmet iv mehmet iv zurnazen mustafa pasha melek ahmed pasha boynuyaralı mehmed pasha gürcü mehmed pasha 25 april 1656 istanbul , turkey sunni islam 250px ottoman grand vizier of the ottoman empire 5 march 1656 21 august 1651 abaza siyavuş pasha i
 25 april 1656 27 september 1651 siyavuş
abaza siyavuş pasha i

abaza siyavuş pasha i -lrb- died 25 april 1656 -rrb- was an ottoman grand vizier -lrb- the index i is used to differentiate him from the second and better known abaza siyavuş pasha , who also served as grand vizier , from 1687 to 1688 -rrb- .
he was of abazin origin and a manservant of abaza mehmed , who was a rebel leader of the ottoman empire in the 17th century .
upon the execution of his master , he entered the service of the palace in istanbul .
in 1638 , he was promoted to be a vizier , and in 1640 , he was assigned as the kapudan pasha -lrb- admiral of the navy -rrb- .
in 1642 , he was tasked with recapturing the fort of azov -lrb- in modern russia -rrb- from the cossacks , but failed .
he was then assigned to various cities as governor , including erzurum , diyarbakır -lrb- both in modern turkey -rrb- and silistra -lrb- in modern bulgaria -rrb- .
on 5 march 1651 , he was promoted to be the grand vizier during one of the most chaotic periods of the empire , known as the sultanate of women .
the period was marked by palace intrigues , and siyavuş pasha could not cope with palace politics .
on 27 september , a little more than a month after his appointment , he was dismissed from his post and was about to be executed when the valide sultan kösem intervened to save his life .
he was appointed as the governor of bosnia .
although abaza siyavuş pasha was again promoted to the post of grand vizier on 5 march 1656 , he died soon afterwards on 25 april .
