By 1503, he had become
Sanjak-bey of
Ankara. Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha was one of the commanders who supported Selim in the Ottoman succession dispute. In 1511, as a result of the large revolt of the
Janissary, he became
beylerbey of
Anatolia. In his new position, he played an instrumental role in securing that Selim would be the next Sultan in 1512 and had an important impact in the military victory against
Şehzade Ahmed (Selim's half-brother) the pretender to the Ottoman throne on 15 April 1513 in
Yenişehir. Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha may have been the commander who captured Şehzade Ahmed in the battle. By the summer of 1513, he became joined as a
vizier (minister) in the
Imperial Council (diwan) and was responsible for the negotiations with
Venice about possible Ottoman support to Venice against H.R.E.
Charles V. In 1514, Selim I began his campaign against the
Safavids which culminated in the
Battle of Chaldiran. At the beginning of the campaign, Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha was at the head of the vanguard of 20,000
sipahi. His activity in the early stages of the campaign in contemporary sources is unclear, but in the battle of Chaldiran on 23 August 1514 he and the other viziers were at the centre of the battle line next to Selim. Around 7 September, when the Ottoman army reached
Tabriz, the Safavid capital, Dukaginzade was in the delegation which went ahead of the army in order to accept the city's surrender to Selim. He was
Grand Vizier of the empire from 18 December 1514 to 4 March 1515. Then he was executed by Selim I, who thought that he was involved in the ongoing revolt of the
janissaries. His son,
Dukakinzade Mehmed Pasha, was a governor in several regions including
Egypt Eyalet. He built the
Al-Adiliyah Mosque complex in
Aleppo, Syria where his family was based. The El Adli Dukaginzade are his descendants. In Ottoman sources,
Dukaginzade have been used to refer to him. ==Family==