[2] He is mentioned as the governor of Tripoli in mid-September 1697 in a letter by the Sufi traveler Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi.
[3] In 1698,[4] Kaplan was appointed by the imperial Ottoman government the governor of Sidon Eyalet, a post he held until 1703.
[5] In 1698 or 1699 Kaplan Pasha was appointed the amir al-hajj (commander of the Hajj pilgrim caravan), replacing the governor of Damascus, Ahmed Pasha Salih Pashazade, who was executed by Sultan Mustafa II.
[6] Kaplan Pasha's son, Mehmed Bey, governed Latakia in the early 18th century.
He was accused of a host of injustices, including "oppressing the poor", "confiscating tobacco stores" in a government document, but could not be dislodged from his saray (government house) in the city.