Ishak Pasha

İshak Pasha (? - 1497, Thessaloniki) was a Croatian or Greek who became an Ottoman general, statesman and later Grand Vizier.^[1]

His first term as a grand vizier was during the reign of Mehmet II (the conqueror). During this term he transferred Turkmen people from ther Anatolian city of Aksaray to newly conquered İstanbul to populate the city which had lost a portion of its former population prior to conquest. The quarter of the city is where the Aksaray migrants had settled is now called Aksaray.^[2] His second term was during the reign of Beyazıt II.

In popular culture

Ishak Pasha is referenced in the 2011 video game Assassin's Creed: Revelations, as the mentor and figurehead of the Assassin brotherhood in the Ottoman Empire. Ezio Auditore, after collecting several pages of Pasha's journal scattered throughout Constantinople, can retrieve Pasha's armor from a secret chamber in the Hagia Sophia.

References

^ Radushev, Evg (2003). Inventory of Ottoman Turkish documents about Waqf preserved in the Oriental Department at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library. Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ. p. 228.
^ Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sadrazamları, Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009, ISBN978 875 254 278 5P.22

Preceded by Rum Mehmed Pasha	Grand Vizier 1469–1472	Succeeded by Veli Mahmud Pasha
Preceded by Karamanlı Mehmet Pasha	Grand Vizier 1481–1482	Succeeded by Davud Pasha

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[Evg_Radushev-1] Radushev, Evg (2003). Inventory of Ottoman Turkish documents about Waqf preserved in the Oriental Department at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library. Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ. p. 228.

[2] Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sadrazamları, Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009, ISBN978 875 254 278 5P.22

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