According to al-Jabarti, upon arrival in
Egypt as governor, Recep Pasha was ordered by the
Sultan Ahmed III to audit the accounts of his predecessor,
Dellak Ali Pasha, and then kill him, as well as plan the assassination of a local bey named Ismail Bey ibn Iwaz and his partisans. Recep Pasha indeed proceeded to audit Dellak Ali Pasha and had him executed by decapitation, allegedly sending his skinned head to the sultan in
Constantinople. Ali Pasha's body was buried in the
City of the Dead necropolis, reportedly under the name "Ali Pasha al-Mazlum" (
Ali Pasha the Oppressed). being reappointed as governor of
Aleppo. == In Aleppo ==