Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger

Twice during his reign, sultan Murad II, a man more interested in religion and the arts than politics, retired to the city of Manisa.

[2] Orhan was a distant Ottoman family member and could claim himself as pretender for the throne and potentially start a civil war.

[2] Halil Pasha became infuriated at the message and replied to the messengers:[2] You stupid Greeks, I have known your cunning ways for long enough.

If Constantinople eludes his bold and impetuous grip, it will only be because God continues to overlook your devious and wicked schemes.

[2]In 1453, one of the first acts committed by the (then fully reigning) Sultan Mehmed II immediately after the conquest of Constantinople was to imprison Çandarlı Halil Pasha.

[3] Mehmed II thus ended the Çandarlı era in the Ottoman Empire, and the later members of the family became no more than provincial notables based in İznik, although they were to give yet another, short-term, grand vizier to the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 15th century (Halil's son Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha the Younger).