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Özdemir Pasha (died 1561, Sana) was a Circassian Mamluk general for the Ottoman Empire. He joined Hadım Süleyman Pasha's campaign to India in 1538 (see Ottoman naval expeditions in the Indian Ocean). Later he became the Ottoman governor of Yemen and invaded Medri Bahri in 1557 for the Ottoman Empire. He died in 1561 in Sana, Yemen.

His son, Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha, became the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1584 to 1585.

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