Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha (also known asNişancı İsmail Kemalettin Pasha; 1620 – April 1690) was a short-termOttomangrand vizier in 1688.

He was ofTurkish origin.^[1] He was born inAyaş (in modernAnkara Province,Turkey) in 1620. After working as a bureaucrat in various posts, he retired from being the Ottoman governor ofRumelia Eyalet (easternThrace). However, he returned to government service in 1678 as anişancı.^[2] He was described as mild-mannered, an anachronistic quality in that era of the Ottoman Empire.

TheOttoman Empire was engaged in a long and costly war against Holy Alliance countries in the so-calledGreat Turkish War. After a series of military failures,Constantinople, the capital of the empire, fell into chaos. The grand vizierAbaza Siyavuş Pasha was killed by the rebels, and Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha became the acting grand vizier for one week. On 2 March 1688, he was appointed as full grand vizier by thesultanSüleyman II. His term, however, was very short (only spanning 61 days). During this term, he attempted to stem corruption, gaining him many enemies in the palace. His main enemy wasKöprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha (a future grand vizier), who was the brother-in-law of the late grand vizier Abaza Siyavuş Pasha. After the intensive efforts of Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, İsmail Pasha was dismissed from office by sultan Süleyman II on 2 May.^[3]

İsmail Pasha was imprisoned inKavala (in modernGreece) and then exiled to the island ofRhodes (in modern Greece). Now grand vizier, Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa accused Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha of seizing Abaza Siyavuş Pasha's fortune and asked for the fortune in return for pardon. Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha denied all accusations, and Fazıl Mustafa Pasha had him executed him later that year, in April 1690.

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