Dervish Mehmed Pasha

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Four different grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire who held office in three different centuries were named Dervish Mehmed Pasha. Their nickname recorded by history, "dervish", points out, for each, to their pious character and background and, principally, in connection with the Mevlevi order. These are;

• Dervish Mehmed Pasha the Bosniak, who held office under Ahmed I in 1606
  
• Koca Dervish Mehmed Pasha, who held office under Mehmed IV in 1653-1654
• Moralı Dervish Mehmed Pasha, who held office under Abdülhamid I between 1775-1777
• Burdurlu Dervish Mehmed Pasha, who held office under Mahmud II between 1818-1820

furthermore, among figures of Turkish literature;

• Dervish (or Derviş) Mehmed Zılli was also the real name (never used as signature in his writings) of the 17th century Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi (this name is often mispronounced as "Zilli" which actually gives a totally different meaning to the name)

finally, another Dervish Mehmet of notoriety on another note and this time in the Republican era of the Turkish history was,

• Dervish Mehmed (self-styled Mahdi) of Kubilay incident in 1930.