In 1644, he married İsmihan Kaya Sultan, Murad's daughter, and gained the title damat (groom).
[2] Nevertheless, before Melek Ahmed left Istanbul, the Grand Vizier Kara Murat Pasha resigned, complaining of the intrigues of the palace people.
He attempted to balance the budget, but without a real knowledge of financial affairs, his economic measures worsened the economy instead of improving it.
[5] On their wedding night, Fatma demanded that her new husband guarantee her an income five times higher than that of the deceased Kaya Sultan.
When he told her that he did not have such wealth, she threatened to divorce him and immediately withdraw her dowry, which amounted to one year's taxes of the provinces of Egypt.
In the Ottoman Empire, the minting of devalued coinage continued after 1651 and provided the major reason for a wide-scale rebellion, the Çınar Incident, in 1656.
Evliya Çelebi and Melek Ahmet Pasha were milk brothers as a result they happened to be very close to each other.