Hadñm (Eunuch) Suleiman Pasha (; ; 1467 â September 1547) was an Ottoman statesman and military commander of Greek descent. He served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt in 1525–1535.
He was nominated governor of Baghdad in 1535âÂÂ1536 after the recent Capture of Baghdad (1534). He was appointed to Buda in 1536, then to Damascus in 1537.
He again served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt in 1537–1538. The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered Suleiman Pasha as governor of Egypt to conduct a naval expedition in the Indian Ocean, where he led the capture of Aden and the siege of Diu (in Portuguese India) in 1538. Suleiman Pasha was a benefactor of his long-serving successor in the Egyptian governorship, Davud Pasha (served 1538âÂÂ1549), whom he championed for the role to spite his rival and colleague, Rüstem Pasha.
Suleiman Pasha was designated as governor of Aleppo in 1539âÂÂ1540. He finally became Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1541 and 1544. He was a eunuch.