Çandarli Halil Pasha
Ottoman grand vizier
Years: 1390 - 1453
Çandarlı (Chandarly) Halil Pasha is a highly influential Ottoman grand vizier under the Sultans Murad II and, for the first years of his reign, under Mehmet II (from 1439 to 1 June 1453 precisely).
He is a member of the Çandarlı Family, considered to have contributed nearly as much as the ruling Ottoman dynasty to laying the foundations of the Ottoman Empire.
He is not to be confused with his grandfather, who was a namesake (Çandarlı Kara Halil Hayreddin Pasha) and who had served under Murad I.
