Özdemir Pasha

Özdemir Pasha (died 1560, Habesh Eyalet was a Mamluk general for the Ottoman Empire, of Kumyk Turkic or Circassian descent. He joined Hadım Süleyman Pasha's campaign to India in 1538 (see Ottoman naval expeditions in the Indian Ocean). Later he became the Ottoman governor of Yemen and invaded Nubia and Abyssinia. He fell ill while campaigning in Abyssinia and died in Debarwa in November, 1560.

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