Güzelce Ali Pasha


Güzelce Ali Pasha, also known as Çelebi Ali Pasha or İstanköylü Ali Pasha, was an Ottoman statesman and military figure. He was Kapudan Pasha around 1617 and [Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Empire|Grand Vizier] of the Ottoman Empire from 1619 to 1621.
He was the son of İstanköylü Ahmed Pasha, an Ottoman governor of Tunis.
In 1616, he married Fatma Sultan, a daughter of Sultan Mehmed III and his consort Handan Hatun.
Güzelce Ali Pasha died of inflammation of the gallbladder on 9 March 1621, although there were rumours that Sultan Osman II himself had crept into Ali's tent and strangled him with his own hands due to an ill-advised military campaign on the Polish borderlands. He was of Turk origin.