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Sinan Pasha (Ottoman admiral)

d. 1554 · 16th century

Sinan Pasha was Kapudan Pasha, grand admiral of the Ottoman fleet, from about 1550 to 1554 and a brother of the grand vizier Rüstem Pasha. In August 1551, together with the corsair Turgut Reis, he besieged Tripoli and forced the Knights Hospitaller to surrender it, bringing Tripolitania under Ottoman rule.

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