Devshirme

thumb|304x304px|Illustration of an Ottoman official and his assistant registering Christian boys for the devshirme. The official takes a tax to cover the price of the boys' new red clothes and the cost of transport from their home, while the assistant records their village, district and province, parentage, date of birth and physical appearance. Ottoman miniature painting, 1558.

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1505–1579)

Ottoman statesman (14..–1561)

Ottoman General and Grand Vizier (1500-1580)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman politician and admiral

Ottoman military commander 1446–1462(1469)?, "kapudan pasha" and the highest military rank, grand vizier, during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror"

Ottoman Grand Vizier

Ottoman grand vizier (1467–1547)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1580–82, 1589–91, 1593–95, 1595–96)

Ottoman admiral and statesman

Ottoman Grand Vizier

Ottoman statesman

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1517)

Albanian general and grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1482 to 1497

Ottoman politician (1459-1517)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1596, 1596–1597, 1599–1601)

Ottoman grand vizier (1530–1611)

Ottoman statesman (d. 1470)

Ottoman Empire politician

Ottoman governor

Ottoman grand vizier (1550–1614)

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman grand vizier (1530–1595)

Ottoman Grand Vizier

Ottoman grand vizier during the reign of Murad IV (1584–1632)

Ottoman grand vizier

Ottoman military officer and statesman

politician

Ottoman grand vizier

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman poet and military figure (1498-1582)

Pasha of Bosnia

The baltacı or baltadji (plural baltacılar, "axemen") corps was a class of palace guards in the Ottoman Empire from the 15th to the early 19th centuries.

influential Ottoman official, bureaucrat, author and military officer,

Ottoman politician

Ottoman soldier and statesman