Grand vizier
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Oct 27, 2026
Chris HaslerHOST
But beyond the city, something extraordinary is happening.
Chris HaslerHOST
An unlikely coalition is gathering under the command of the Polish king, John III Sobieski, determined to confront the Ottoman Grand Vizier, Korah Mustafa Pasha.
Chris HaslerHOST
Two powerful
Chris HaslerHOST
commanders, two enormous armies, and a city whose fate could reshape the balance of power across Europe.
Sherlock HolmesVOICE_ACTOR
Show Mr. Bellingbroke in.
Sherlock HolmesVOICE_ACTOR
I am Afan Turman, the Grand Vizier to the Maharaja.
Sherlock HolmesVOICE_ACTOR
We welcome you.
Sherlock HolmesVOICE_ACTOR
How
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A Hungarian-led crusade threatened the European territories.
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The Grand Vizier effectively managed the actual governance, while the young Sultan struggled with the weight of a position he was not yet ready for.
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Murad came back.
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Mehmed was returned to the role of prince and heir, and spent the remaining years of his father's reign governing the province of Manisa in western Anatolia, reading, planning and waiting.
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It was not a revolutionary reimagining of the legal system, it was meticulous, practical, careful work, the kind that does not make for exciting reading but that holds a complex society together across centuries.
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His personal life in the palace was its own kind of political theatre.
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His closest friend from childhood, Ibrahim Pasha, served as Grand Vizier from 1523. an extraordinarily powerful position that Ibrahim filled with genuine competence and increasing confidence.
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The confidence eventually became a problem.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
There was the escort of Zaptiehs to be procured and the goodwill of the authorities to be obtained.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
We had letters of introduction to Farid Pasha, then Vali of the Konya Vilayet and since Grand Vizier of Constantinople.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
He was not, as other Valis, he was called the Great and the Good and had established law and order in his province.
Paul WelfordNARRATOR
There need be no fear of brigandage while we were within the boundaries of his jurisdiction.
Bill HandelHOST
Now, in China and Russia, it's a one-person dictatorship.
Bill HandelHOST
In Iran, to a certain extent, it's the Grand Mullah, the Grand Vizier, you know, the imperial wizard of Tehran, whatever the hell they call him.
Bill HandelHOST
And he sort of makes the decisions, has veto power, if nothing else.
Bill HandelHOST
But Iran is saying, and they're willing to go balls to the wall.
Alex GibneyGUEST
Uh, you know, it's, it goes back to the Wizard of Oz.
Alex GibneyGUEST
I mean, you know, we, we believe in the Grand Vizier.
Alex GibneyGUEST
It would, it would pay [laughs] for us to hire a lot more Totos.
Alex GibneyGUEST
So, uh, be- because the-
AlistairNARRATOR
A strong sultan, Mulai Hassan, had died in eighteen hundred ninety-four, leaving as heir to his throne one of his younger sons, Mulai Abd el Aziz, a mere boy.
AlistairNARRATOR
For several years, the power lay in the hands of the Grand Vizier, and it was not until his death in nineteen oh one that the young sultan emerged from the precincts of the secluded palace to take over the reins of government.
AlistairNARRATOR
Well-intentioned, weak, misled, and shockingly robbed, Mulai Abd el Aziz was incapable of maintaining order over the turbulent tribes, whom a long period of repression and extortion had rendered only too ready to revolt.
AlistairNARRATOR
His plight was not rendered any the happier by the fact that the two powers most interested at that period in Morocco, England and France, were united by no ties of friendship.
Sean StewartMODERATOR
[laughs]
Tom VaselHOST
... to Rostiad, Grand Vizier, EGAD.
Chris YeeHOST
EGAD?
Tom VaselHOST
That's the East Groveland Auto Duelists.
TchaikovskyNARRATOR
Michonnet follows Quinot laughing
Adrian StephensVOICE_ACTOR
His High and Mightiness, the Grand Vizier, is not in good humor.
Adrian StephensVOICE_ACTOR
Roxana is too much for him
TchaikovskyNARRATOR
Goes to door
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