Gedik Ahmed (-1482)

Ahmed-Keduk, or AchIliet GedllC, a Turkish general and Grand Vizier to Mahomet II. ; gained great renown as a military commander under Bajazet, the successor of Mahomet, by the conquest of the Crimea and other provinces, and by the suppression of the rebel Jem, brother to the Sultan. His overbearing conduct, however, alienated the friendship of Bajazet, who ordered him put to death in 1482.