Çandarlı Family in the Clasic Period of Ottoman

Our study on the "Candarlı Family in the Classic Period Of Ottoman" covers a period of approximately one hundred and fifty years in which the Candarlı family was influential. In this period, there has been significant improvements in the political, social and cultural life. By expanding their borders with the conquests, the Ottomans faciliated the Sultan's work by improving the organizational structure inherited from Anatolian Seljuks. The Ottomans paid attention to the separation of powers as from the early years. They divided the executive and military tasks in order to prevent abuse of power. Some distinguished members of the Candarlı family, appointed to the office of vizier and grand vizier in this period, were the architects of many innovations in political, social and cultural domains. In this context, one of the first Ottoman viziers Candarlı Kara Halil Hayreddin Pasha and his three sons Ali, Ilyas and Ibrahim Pashas, Ibrahim Pasha's eldest son Halil Pasha and his son Ibrahim Pasha II can be stated as remarkable figures of this family. The Candarlı family gained influence when Candarlı Kara Halil Hayreddin Pasha was appointed to the office of vizier during Sultan Orhan period and the family enjoyed their v most powerful period at the time of Ali and Halil Pashas. Candarlı family, known for their success in state administration from the foundation to the emperial period of the Ottoman Empire, lost its power in the state by the execution of Halil Pasha. As sultans, their wives and daughters, and many viziers and statesmen, Candarlı family also did many charity works such as mosques, madrasas, Turkish baths, lodges, imarets, bridges and waterways, and contributed to social and cultural life. They spent a portion of the income earned from State duty in the public interest so that people have a good opinion about themselves. In order to ensure the sustainability of the charitable foundations, the income of many farms, shops and bathhouses was transferred to these foundations. Thus, these foundations were ceased to be burden on the state budget. Although some of these monuments and foundations have been in service until today, some of them have been destroyed. Keywords: Candarlıfamily, social and cultural life, vizier, foundation, imaret.