Hadım (Eunuch) Suleiman Pasha (; ; 1467 – September 1547) was an Ottoman statesman and military commander of Greek descent. He served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt in 1525–1535.Turkish State Archives
He was appointed governor of Baghdad in 1535–1536 after the recent Capture of Baghdad (1534). He was appointed to Buda in 1536, and to Damascus in 1537.
He again served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt in 1537–1538.Turkish State Archives The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered Suleiman Pasha, then governor of Egypt, to conduct a naval expedition in the Indian Ocean, where he led the capture of Aden and the siege of Diu (in Portuguese India) in 1538.A military history of modern Egypt: from the Ottoman Conquest to the Ramadan War by Andrew James McGregor p.30 Suleiman Pasha was a benefactor of his long-serving successor in the Egyptian governorship, Davud Pasha (served 1538–1549), whom he championed for the role to spite his rival and colleague, Rüstem Pasha.
Suleiman Pasha was designated as governor of Aleppo in 1539–1540. He finally became Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1541 and 1544.Turkish State Archives He was a eunuch.
See also Ottoman naval expeditions in the Indian Ocean List of Ottoman grand viziers List of Ottoman governors of Egypt
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