Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha

Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha ( 1662 – 1 October 1730) served as Grand Vizier for Sultan Ahmed III of the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip period. He was also the head of a ruling family which had great influence in the court of Ahmed III.

Early life He was born in Nevşehir (formerly Muşkara) in 1662, to Sipahi Ali Aga, the voivode of Izdin, and Fatma Hanım. In 1689 he went to Istanbul, to see his relatives and to find a job.

İbrâhim Pasha first discussed the peace talks with Austria that will end the war. He wrote a letter to the Austrian applicant on peace; He also sent instructions to the Ottoman delegates. He left the army and left Edirne in order to be prepared for the possibility that peace talks would not result. He remained in Sofia until he got the result of peace. Meanwhile, Austria has aggravated the peace conditions and Turkish delegates were mistreated and interim meetings were interrupted. However, through the ambassadors of the UK and the Netherlands. According to this treaty, Small Wallachia, Timişoara, Belgrade, Northern Serbia were left to Austria. Mora was taken from the Venetians and given back to the Ottoman State.

Marriage and descendants Ibrahim Pasha was married to the daughter of the sultan, Fatma Sultan, in 1717 when the princess was fourteen and Ibrahim was fifty. This marriage into the Ottoman dynasty earned him the epithet "Damat" (Turkish: bridegroom, son-in-law). He was earlier married to another woman, whom he divorced to marry Fatma. From this previous marriage, he had at least one son, Nevşehirli Mehmed Bey, who married Atike Sultan, a half-sister of Fatma.

Ibrahim and Fatma had two sons and two daughters: Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha (1718? – 16 June 1778) Sultanzade Genç Mehmed Bey (March 1723 – 1737) Fatma Hanımsultan (?–1765). She had a son, Mehmed Bey, who married Hatice Hanımsultan, daughter of Saliha Sultan, another daughter of Ahmed III. Hibetullah Hanımsultan (?–1774)

Character İbrâhim Pasha was a supporter of innovation and was keen on history and fine arts. He also learned from the works of the painter Ömer Efendi.

Death On the morning of 1 October 1730 İbrâhim Pasha was murdered. His body was handed over to the Janissaries, and it was taken through the streets of Istanbul and mutilated after various public insults in Sultanahmet Square.